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St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church is one of the most unusual Ukrainian country churches in Saskatchewan. The seven domes set it apart from others. This is a view of the back of the church which is located east of Wakaw near Lepine.
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El Ángel de la Catedral de Santa Tecla (¿o Santa María?/ siglos XII-XIV-XVI) de Tarragona, capital de la provincia de Tarragona, Cataluña, España.
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Isaan - Dan Sai - Wat Neramit Wipattasana.
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I love the solitude of this shot.
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Colourful stained glass window inside the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
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San Giovanni - Laterano
for only 5 min in strong direct sun-light - it is not a B&W picture
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Bom Jesus do Monte Braga Portugal 2007
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Igreja de São Francisco de Assis (Templo Monumento) em São João del-Rei (MG) - Capital Brasileira da Cultura 2007. Barroco
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This is a medieval church (from about 1200) that was destroyed by the swedes in 1567. The hard Norwegian winters threatended to finish off the work the swedes didn't manage to do, so someone had the rather brilliant idea of protecting the remaining ruins with a hi-tec glass construction,and this is what it looks like inside. The outside can be seen elsewhere on my photostream. For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamar_Cathedral
I would have taken many more pictures, but there had just been a wedding so I snuck in to take some pictures, but was instantly thrown out after taking my 3 bracketed exposures. Don't know what gave me away, could it have been the red T-shirt and shorts?
Nahe des Schlosses Blumenthal steht mitten in einem Waldstück eine Turmruine der ehemaligen St. Georgskapelle. Seit 1596 wurde dort jeden Freitag eine Messe gelesen, bevor man die Kapelle zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts abbrach. Glücklicherweise blieb der heute nahezu vergessene Turm stehen.
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Auf dem Burgplatz von Weichenberg steht die wunderschöne romanische Kapelle "St. Ulrich".
Crowds pour in and out of the inner part of the Golden Temple, or Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab.
Dedicated to Raminder Pal Singh, whose inspiring work of the Golden Temple (along with Captain Suresh Sharma's work) inspired me to see one of the lands my ancestors came from - The Punjab.
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The Harmandar Sahib (originally called the Hari Mandir, or 'temple of God') is also known as the Golden Temple. It is the holiest of Sikh Gurudwaras (or places of worship) and many thousands of Sikh and non Sikh devotees and tourists visit every year to witness this fantastic sight and spiritual haven.
Located in the older part of Amritsar city, this temple was originally the site of a small lake in a forest. In 1574, the Mughal Emporor, Akbar visited the third Sikh Guru, Guru Amar Das in a nearby village. He was so impressed by what he saw there, that he gifted a sum of money to the Guru's daughter (who later married a man who became the fourth Guru, Guru Ram Das). This money was used to enlarge the lake and build a small township.
Under the fifth Guru, Guru Arjan Dev, that the temple was built. A great Sufi (Muslim mystic, popular in this time in South Asia) friend of the guru from Lahore (former capital of undivided Punjab, now the capital of Pakistan's Punjab state) visited and laid the foundation stone in 1588. It was completed in 1601. Later it would be attacked by the Afghans, requiring rebuilding in the 1760s.
The temple has four enterances, which signifies the importance of acceptance and openness. All may enter the Harimandir Sahib, regardless of who they are - though they must abstain from meat, drinking alcohol, entering intoxicated, smoking or use drugs while inside (as with all Sikh temples).
The temple was also the site of Operation Blue Star, in 1984, which resulted in a very sorrowful time in the history of the people of Punjab and Delhi, regardless of race or religion, though it was the Sikhs who suffered more.
It was at this time that Sikhs in Delhi were at high risk. My maternal Grandfather took a neighbouring Sikh family into his house to help ensure their safety, and they remain friends since.
Links:
http://www.harmandirsahib.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star
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Climbed up Kupinzer mountain in Salzburg early one morning. This was Mozart's church - built about 500 years ago.
[...] for our sister, mother earth, who sustains us and governs, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and green plants [...] for those who forgive [...] and endure infirmity and tribulation [...] for our sister, bodily death, whom no man living can escape [...] May Thou be praised, my Lord
[...] per sora nostra matre Terra, la quale ne sustenta et governa, et produce diversi fructi con coloriti fior et herba [...] per quelli che perdonano [...] et sostengono infermitate et tribulatione [...] per sora nostra Morte corporale, da la quale nullu homo vivente pò scappare [...] Laudato si' mi Signore
-- Excerpts from The Praises of the Creatures (Il cantico delle creature), San Francesco d'Assisi (1226)
Todi, Italy (May, 2007)
On Sunday 10 June, the Feast of Corpus Christi, Catholics of Oxford took part in a Eucharistic Procession from the Oxford Oratory to the Catholic Chaplaincy, pausing at Blackfriars Priory for a sermon given by Bishop William Kenney CP, auxiliary of Birmingham.
Brasilia - DF - Brasil
Dom Bosco Church
Projected by Carlos Alberto Naves. They are 80 16m-high columns in Brise-Soleil closing in Gothic style, with stained-glass windows in 12 shades of blue, symbolizing a starry sky. On the roof, drawings by Carlos Alberto Naves, the central luster by Alvimar Moreira contains 7.400 Murano glasses and 180 lamps weighing 2.600 kg.
Igreja Dom Bosco
Projetado por Carlos Alberto Naves. São 80 colunas em Brise-Soleil com 16 m de altura fechando em estilo gótico, com vitrais em 12 tonalidades de azul, simbolizando um céu estrelado. No teto, desenhos de Carlos Alberto Naves, o lustre central de Alvimar Moreira contém 7.400 copos de vidro Murano e 180 lâmpadas pesando 2.600 kg.
"A flame divided yet undimmed..." as the Exsultet, the hymn in praise of the Paschal candle says.
In subsequent photos, Br Romero, the thurifer, disappears in the cloud of incense which he is producing!
The Dominican priory church in Oxford is lit by the light of the Easter fire after the darkness of Good Friday.
To find out more about Badshahi Mosque, visit the following link:
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Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Roma (i)
The beautiful and majestic Magdalen College's medieval Tower (144ft high, built 1492-1509) is seen from the College's expansive deer park and water meadow.
Perhaps most photographed building in Helsinki (Finland). This is also known as Suurkirkko or St. Nicholas church.
Canterbury Cathedral, taken with the help of a pocket tripod.
I thought this photo made a pretty good black and white.
While there is no doubt that the cultural revolution caused endless vandalism against chinese cultural assets, I am surprised by what remained.
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This is the church located at the end of the street in the Old Town picture.