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christianity is a project i made from a shot at a sergi alcazar badia's exhibition in corinthos,,,
in punk we trust ,,,
Hundred Avalokitesvaras (Hyakutai Kan'non 百体観音) are located in the Tsugaike settlement at an altitude of 700 m. These stone statues and stelae were donated by local well wishers for safety, health, prosperity etc. They were relocated to this place from their original roadside locations to widen old roads suitable for car traffic in the 19th century.
Avalokitesbara is a Bodhisattva of mercy, which is like a saint of Christianity. He became popular in China and translated to 観音 (Guan'yin). It was pronounced Kwanon and modified later to Kan'non in Japan.
There was a Japanese manufacturer who gave the name of Buddhist deity to its products. The company later considered to modify the brand name to sound more familiar to their international customers while keeping the existing Japanese customers. Kwanon was changed to Canon.
I found its old logo in flickr at flic.kr/p/j4A3NG
The unique church of St. Nicholas in Horodysh was the oldest church building in Menshchyna. In 2016, the church was moved to the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Pirogov.
St. Nicholas Church was built in Horodysh in 1763, it consisted of a four-sided nave, an eight-sided hall and a six-sided altar. By the way, the structure was built without a single nail.
In 2016, the church was dismantled and moved to Pirogov. Only the foundation remained in Horodysh.
In the restored church, the walls are the same as in Horodyshche, and the outside is decorated with modern materials.
Унікальний храм Святого Миколая в Городищі, був найстарішою церковною спорудою на Менщині. У 2016 році церкву перевезли до Національного музею народної архітектури та побуту, що в Пирогові.
Свято-Миколаївська церква зведена в Городищі 1763 року, складалася з чотиригранного бабинця, восьмигранної зали і шестигранного вівтаря. До речі, споруду побудовали без жодного цвяха.
2016 року храм розібрали і перевезли до Пирогова. У Городищі залишився тільки фундамент.
У відреставрованої церкви стіни стоять ті, що й в Городищі, а ззовні оздобили сучасними матеріалами.
Et la mairie-école publique juste en face. Cette photo serait-elle moins tranquille qu'elle en a l'air ? Cela n'empêche pas les chevaux de brouter paisiblement...
Stavropoleos Monastery, Bucharest, Romania
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Stavropoleos Monastery, Bucharest, Romania
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Hmm it is certainly a struggle that Christmas seems to embody - is it a Christian feast or a Winter festival of spend and abundance to fight the darkness of this season? Perhaps it is both as it has been for a long time. Very early cultures had winter feasts of abundance to celebrate light to bide them over the dark season. Christianity adapted these feasts to help in their conversion mission and the fact that it makes sense to the message, the marking of the birth of hope/light overcoming the darkness, something worth celebrating for.
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In that order. Should we wish to understand London's history. View along the bowsprit of the "Cutty Sark" (1869) in Greenwich across the River Thames and to the office blocks of Canary Wharf. Edited in Fuji's raw converter and refined in Luminar.
The village of Gourdon is perched on a dizzying peak of 760 m and overlooks the Loup Valley. This location has earned it the nickname of "Eagle's Nest". It is part of the 149 most beautiful villages in France and has two flowers in the Entente Florale.
Андріївська церква — православна церква на честь Святого Андрія у стилі бароко у Києві.
Красота итальянского барокко и угрюмость сталинского модерна.
Слева здание, изначально запроектированное в качестве художественной и музыкальной школы (ныне здание Национального музея истории Украины на Старокиевской горе в Киеве, 1937 -1939 гг., архитектора И.Ю.Каракиса)
В феврале 1936 г. в газете «Большевик» было сообщение, что первая в Украинской Республике художественная школа будет строиться на улице Ленина. Однако без согласия ГлавАПУ Киева и уведомления автора проекта, по инициативе секретаря ЦК КП(б)У С. В. Косиора дается указание, сохраняя проект в первоначальном виде, разместить здание будущей школы на месте Десятинной церкви.
Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island was one of the most important centres of early Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. It is still a place of pilgrimage today, the dramatic approach across the causeway adding to the fascination of the site.
St Aidan founded the monastery in AD 635, but St Cuthbert, prior of Lindisfarne, is the most celebrated of the priory's holy men. Buried in the priory, his remains were transferred to a pilgrim shrine there after 11 years, and found still undecayed - a sure sign of sanctity.
From the end of the 8th century, the isolated island with its rich monastery was easy prey for Viking raiders. In 875 the monks left, carrying Cuthbert's remains, which after long wanderings were enshrined in Durham Cathedral in 1104, where they still rest. Only after that time did Durham monks re-establish a priory on Lindisfarne: the evocative ruins of the richly decorated priory church they built in c. 1150 still stand, with their famous 'rainbow arch' - a vault-rib of the now vanished crossing tower. The small community lived quietly on Holy Island until the suppression of the monastery in 1537. (English Heritage).
This week's rains washed away the Winter sleep. Early morning ambient light graces my neighbor's first azaleas. April brings promise of another season of life.
“Blossom by blossom the Spring begins.”
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Titus 3:5
He came to save us. It’s not that we earned it by doing good works or righteous deeds; He came because He is merciful. He brought us out of our old ways of living to a new beginning through the washing of regeneration; and He made us completely new through the Holy Spirit,
COVID-19 gives opportunities to take countless picture over time of day, of overcast and of sunshine. God's creation is forever changing. Love the interaction between flower and insect.
The earth is filled with Your unfailing love, O Eternal One; teach me to observe what You require. ~ Psalm 119:64
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerva
Don’t run from tests and hardships, brothers and sisters. As difficult as they are, you will ultimately find joy in them; if you embrace them, your faith will blossom under pressure and teach you true patience as you endure. And true patience brought on by endurance will equip you to complete the long journey and cross the finish line—mature, complete, and wanting nothing. ~ James 1: 2-4
Old monthly magazine “Kievskaya starina” which specialized in historical subjects, in 1898 wrote:
“For fanciers of church architecture and paintings Cathedral in memory of Assumption of Virgin Mary in Kozelets town in Chernihovskay province represents something such, perhaps, not to see in all famous in this direction cathedrals and churches of St. Petersburg. (…)
Very soon the cathedral was built. It was like a miracle that everyone exclaimed and decided that not only in Chernihiv, but even in Kiev actually no such cathedral”.
Beauty is a universal language; it can’t be compared with artificial Esperanto. Here is really very beautiful. Olexiy Razumovsky had a taste and much money (besides he was married secretly to Russian empress Yelyzaveta Petrivna). In this case, it is also very important.
В середине ХVІІІ века семья Разумовских была одной из самых богатых в России. Именно в это время и возвели величественный собор Рождества Богородицы. Учредительницей собора стала мать братьев Разумовских, Наталия Демьяновна. Придворная статс-дама (в прошлом обычная сельская женщина) инициировала строительство большой церкви в родном селе Лемешах. И почти одновременно она, при поддержке сына-гетмана, начала строительство огромного собора в Козельце, который строили в течение 11 годов (1752-1763). Руководили строительством архитекторы Квасов и Григорович-Барский. Храм возвели в стиле позднего барокко, но с элементами украинской народной архитектуры. Немного позже (в 1770) рядом с храмом была построена большая (высотой 50 метров) колокольня.
Fifth to sixth century mosaics around the cupola of the Rotunda, Thessaloniki. The Rotunda was built in 306 AD as a Roman mausoleum or a temple. It is the oldest (still standing) building in Thessaloniki. After "paganism" was outlawed at the end of the fourth century, the building was consecrated as a church and the mosaics fitted within the next one hundred years. The surviving fragments are impressive enough and one of only three comparable examples of early Byzantine mosaic art (the two others being Constantinople, the Agia Sofia in particular, and Ravenna). What fascinates me are the images of Hellenistic and Roman buildings on the wall. One of them has been identified as the Library of Ephesus. Martyr's or donors do stand in front of these buildings, but the image overall is urbane. Christianity is clearly seen as the religion of city dwellers. Interestingly, the original meaning of the Latin term "paganus" is a person from the countryside. The English language got quite close to this when applying the word "heathen" to non-Christians. Leica M8, Voigtlaender 35/1.4.
Should the knot of history be solved that way: Christianity with barbarism, and science with unbelief? (F. Schleiermacher, 1829)
The Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God (other name is the Old Ascension Church)
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The Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God (other name is the Old Ascension Church) is a wooden Orthodox church in the city of Torzhok, Tver Region of Russia.
The first mention of the temple in the clerical record dates back to 1653. The wooden building was built on the right, high, bank of Tvertsa. The height of the temple is 34 meters. Since the temple was wooden, it was redone many times. In the 1780s, a foundation of white old stone was laid under the building (on one of them the year 1782 was knocked out). In 1783, the back roof was replaced by iron, in 1806 the porch was built, and in 1828 the head was redone. By 1854, the temple was dilapidated and it was decided to build a new stone one in return.
In the middle of the XIX century, parishioners decided to build a new stone Ascension Church near the wooden church. It was supposed to destroy the old church, and use the material from it in a new one or sell it in another parish. But the Archbishop of Tver Filofei (Uspensky) forbade the demolition of "such a wonderful church both in antiquity and in architecture." As a result, a new stone Ascension Church was built, in 1858 the warm Zosimo-Savvatievskaya church was demolished, but the old wooden Ascension Church remained standing.
However, the temple was not demolished, but was transferred to the Staritsky tract. By 1883, the temple was reconstructed and on October 5 it was re-consecrated in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.
In Soviet times, church services ceased in 1929. There was a plan to transfer the temple to the Museum of Wooden Architecture in Vasilevo near Torzhok.
In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, restoration and research work was carried out. In the 2000s, worship services resumed in the summer.
The temple preserved painting of the XVIII century, and in the lower tiers of the painting of the second half of the XIX century. In the ceiling of the upper tier is an octagonal niche with the image of the New Testament Trinity.
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James
My heart sways with the tall Summer grasses. ~ Me
Soon enough they will wither like grass, like green herbs fading in summer’s heat. Psalm 37:2
The grass withers, the flower fades; nothing lasts except the word of our God. It will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8
Han River Park, Seoul, years before the pandemic. God shines with His creativity, among 13 million people, among the cars, the steel, the concrete. . .
Ragusa (Italian: [raˈɡuːza] Sicilian: Rausa; Latin: Ragusia) is a city and comune in southern Italy.
An addition to the series "Trip to Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia 2024" taken in the French colonial part of Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City.
Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saïgon is located behind the statue, but it was under repair works when I visited. They were to be ready by the end of 2024.
The French architecture in the background is Saigon Central Post Office.
When Christianity first grew its roots in Greece (before spreading in the world), many of the ancient cult sanctuaries were transformed into churches. At that time the temple was converted into an early Christian three-aisled basilica dedicated to Vergin Mary (Panagià, Παναγιά). The church is well known since for housing the icon of the Virgin of Filerimos. Attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist, the icon was brought in to Rhodes during the 13th century, probably from Jerusalem where it remained until 1523.
St Beuno - Clynnog Fawr
St Beuno, descended from the royal princes of Powys, was the most celebrated of the early Christian monks of North Wales and it was he who founded the 'clas' at Clynnog Fawr in 616 and died here in about 640.
A clas was an institution peculiar to the Celtic church, being a mixture of monastery and college; a place of prayer, teaching, ministry and mission.
Clynnog Fawr rapidly became an important ecclesiastical site, and was also a stopping place for those on pilgrimage to Bardsey Island. Sometimes known as the 'Island of 20,000 Saints', Bardsey was a hugely popular destination for pilgrims in medieval times, with three pilgrimages there being the equivalent of one to Rome.
Clynnog Fawr itself became a place of pilgrimage: the holy well near the church was said to have curative properties, and people spending the night on St Beuno's tomb were said to be healed.
The original church that stood here has long gone, though St Beuno's Chapel, reached along a passageway from the church, is said to stand on the site of the old church and the saint's tomb. This little building has been used as a store and a lock up in the past, and was rescued from ruin in 1913.
The church itself is a handsome building dating from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Maybe - A quieter more sheltered lifestyle might have suited me.
Routine, order, simple and secluded. No fashion or housing worries, no family arguments or money problems.
From my point of view not believing in God seemed like a problem, but the church didn't seem to thinks so.
(The Church of England engages in multicultural faith services
through an "intercultural" approach, where different cultural traditions within Christianity are welcomed and celebrated, and through "multi-faith" gatherings that acknowledge Britain's diverse society and can include dialogue with other faiths. This is supported by resources and initiatives focused on making the church more intentionally intercultural and by acknowledging the changing religious landscape through events like civic services and interfaith dialogues).
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Cathédrale Notre Dame de Bayeux.
"Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven". Matthew (19:14)
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Ihr seid das Salz der Erde…
Ihr seid das Licht der Welt…
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Ye are the salt of the earth…
Ye are the light of the world…
(Mt, 5, 13-14)
A view of what was originally consecrated as St. Patrick's Church and Parish House in Lincoln, Illinois. St. Patrick's was renamed Holy Family Parish in the 1970s after it combined with another area Catholic church, St. Mary's, whose sanctuary had been destroyed by fire. Holy Family is a rural parish ministering to families located throughout parts of Logan County.
St. Patrick's was designed by George P. Stauduhar (1863-1928), the prolific Rock Island architect who built over 200 churches during his career. The cornerstone of St. Patrick's was laid in 1903.