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Not much going on here, but I noticed how in framing the shot this way, the church spire seemed to divide the 'heavens'. And it got me wondering: Does humanity's religious aspirations help unite or further divide us. In the story of the tower of Babel, it was the aspiration of the world to reach up to heaven to unite everyone. Didn't seem the LORD God was too happy with that idea according to the Genesis narrative. Perhaps it has something to do with being too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good? Perhaps the care of the earth and one another is an important and crucial balance in any religious aspirations. In any case, I rather liked the geometric angles and sense of balance this shot attempts to portray.
This sublime octagonal space, located in the East Cloister of the Abbey, was built under Henry III around 1250. It was originally used as a meeting place for the Benedictine monks who oversaw the running of the abbey and its church. The King’s Great Council, predecessor of the English Parliament, first met here in 1257 and, after its formation in the 14th century, the House of Commons usually met here until the reign of Henry VIII.
By the 18th century the medieval stained glass that originally filled the windows had been lost in the course of various transformations the Chapter House had undergone. New windows that were added in the 19th century were severely damaged during bombing raids in 1941. After the war English stained glass artist, Joan Howson, was commissioned to restore the windows. She set what remained of the Victorian glass into alternate windows (left, right and centre in the photo). In the other two windows seen here she created new designs consisting of coats of arms set into clear glass panes. In the southwest window (to the right of the window on the far right of the photo) she set images relating to the Second World War.
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Toyahvale, Texas. This church dates back to 1902. See the interior and history in the next photo of my set. View large on black
The Pilgrimage Church of Maria Locherboden is one of the most important places of worship in Tirol, Austria.
The Church of San Giovanni Battista is located in the alpine village of Mogno in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It was built between 1992 and 1996 on the site of an older church, which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.
The church was designed by the Swiss architect Mario Botta who used marble and granite from the valleys of the area.
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The painted ceiling of the presbytery of St Davids Cathedral, in the city of St Davids (Pembrokeshire, in southwesternmost Wales), visited on a morning in late October 2024.
The cathedral, known in Welsh as Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, is located on the site of a monastic community established during the 6th century by Dewi Sant – the Welsh name of St David – who became the patron saint of Wales. Bishop Peter de Leia began the construction of the current building in 1181, during the reign of Henry II. By then, the place had official papal privilege as an important pilgrimage destination. Repairs, redesign, and expansion continued through 1540, but pillaging and destruction resulted from periods of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the (so-called “English”) Civil War.
Noted church architect George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) restored most of the building, including a redesigned tower; the painted ceiling seen today is thus a Victorian element. St Davids continues to be active as an Anglican cathedral as well as a historic site welcoming visitors.
The cathedral city of St Davids (also spelled St David’s, based on the Welsh Tyddewi, or House of David) has the official status of a city, the UK’s smallest city by population and urban area, even though its size corresponds to that of many a large village.
(Historical information from panels in the cathedral church as well as the official website of St Davids Cathedral and Wikipedia, both last consulted 24 December 2024).
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Sidney Rose Badgley, noted for his architectural work in Cleveland, Ohio, designed this "Piety Hill" edifice in 1911. The land for the structure was donated by Katherine Whitney McGregor who, along with her husband Tracy, made many philanthropic contributions to the city.
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Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings
In the foreground of the photo is the sculptural group "Make Way for the Ducklings!"
Groningen has a number of medieval churches. After the so-called Reduction of Groningen (1594) to the Union of Utrecht, the very foundation of the Republic of the United Netherlands, the town became Protestant and the formerly Catholic church buildings were made suitable - 'cleansed' - for Calvinist service. But their architecture couldn't fundamentally be changed.
The Nieuwe Kerk is the first church in Groningen built specifically to the demands of Protestant rites (1665). Thus the pulpit is located in the very centre of this church with a a floor plan in the form of a Greek cross but, of course, without place for an altar...
The church yard you see in this photo was once used to bury victims of the plague; the stories are heart-rending (see my: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/5563748717/in/photolis...).
Passers-by in today's Autumnal Brightness and Prettiness have all but forgotten that moving history...
When Polish immigrants came to America back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they found comfort and community in their churches. Sweetest Heart of Mary Church was a cornerstone of the Polish community in Detroit. It remains a source of pride and a beacon of faith for Polish Americans in the metro Detroit area to this day. The Church project began in 1890 and was completed in 1893
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Holywood, Co.Down is a (rather posh!) suburb in North Down, between Belfast and Bangor, and part of Northern Ireland’s gold coast, - the so called ’stockbroker belt.’ I happened to be driving through it on Monday 1st September 2025, en-route to Newtownards. As I drove past St Colmcille’s Catholic Church, I reminded myself that I’d promised to take a closer look at this remarkable building, set high on a hill on the approach to the town, a fusion of an old bell-tower and a modern circular building. So, on my return journey, I stopped for twenty minutes or so, armed with the Fujifilm X-T50.
It is that fusion of the ancient and modern that makes this building intriguing. The original building was begun in 1872 and finished around two years later. In August, 1989 the original building was destroyed by fire and only the spire and bell-tower remained unscarred. Restored, they became the focal point of the modern building erected beside, opened to the public in 1995.
Because the building sets on a small hill, and (without a drone!) the images were all captured looking up at the building, and needed some vertical correction in Lightroom.
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The original Church of St John the Baptist at Bishop's Castle was built towards the end of the 13th century to serve a medieval town controlled by the Bishops of Hereford. Only the tower remains of that church, and this was rebuilt in the 17th century, The rest of the Grade II*-listed church was completely re-built in 1869-60 by Thomas Nicholson. The present building in the Victorian Gothic style is spacious and well-proportioned.
Interesting features are a some fine stained glass windows including (in the side chapel) two windows in the Pre-Raphaelite style, one by Henry Holiday, a simple 12th century font, and a sculptured 17th century bust which may be of Gervase Needham, a vicar who was ejected from the living during the Civil War.
September 28, 2016 - The oldest church in Ecuador founded by the Spaniards on 15 August 1534. The church is dedicated to the most holy Virgin Mary Nativity Balbanera. The Iglesia de Balbanera is located along The Pan American Highway about 17 kilometers outside of Riobamba in the town of Colta.
A torre da Helligaandskirken (Igreja do Espírito Santo) em Copenhaga, fotografada durante o inverno, combina uma base em tijolo vermelho, típica da arquitetura do norte da Europa, com uma estrutura superior em tons de cinza-esverdeado e um campanário de influência barroca, visível na fachada. Destaca-se o relógio de mostrador dourado na secção central e a cúpula revestida a cobre. Localizada no coração do centro histórico da capital dinamarquesa, a igreja é uma das mais antigas da cidade, tendo sido originalmente parte de um complexo hospitalar do século XIII e adaptada ao culto luterano no século XVI. Após um incêndio em 1728, foi reconstruída e consagrada em 1732.
The tower of the Helligaandskirken (Church of the Holy Spirit) in Copenhagen, photographed during the winter, combines a red brick base, typical of northern European architecture, with a gray-green upper structure and a Baroque-influenced belfry visible on the façade. Highlights include the golden dial clock in the central section and the copper-plated dome. Located in the heart of the Danish capital's historic center, the church is one of the oldest in the city, having originally been part of a 13th century hospital complex and adapted for Lutheran worship in the 16th century. After a fire in 1728, it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1732.
Greyton, a charming village in the Overberg mountains, a couple of hours by car from Cape Town, is popular with tourists, the kind of place that one tourism agency calls ‘South Africa's Little England.' The ‘coloured’ Moravian Church, an outgrowth of the Moravian Mission established in 1738 in nearby Genadendal to bring education and the gospel to the indigenous community, stands on the outskirts.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
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It takes everything I've got to pass this church by without shooting it again when I travel back and forth to Colorado. But I try to catch it in various light situations. So here the other day, I found myself once again approaching as the sun finished setting.... so here we go again. The Catholic Church at Canoncito, New Mexico.
Cathedral of Reims.Built beginning in 1211 and continuing for 80 year.Reims France-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400
St.Thomas the Martyr . . Winchelsea . . east Sussex
Named in honour of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered in his own Cathedral in 1170, the first recorded mention of St Thomas the Martyr Church was in Old Winchelsea in 1215. After Old Winchelsea had been washed away, work started, in 1288, to erect a new St Thomas the Martyr Church on its present site. The stone came from Caen in Normandy, the timber rafters were made of Sussex oak and the marble came from the west of Sussex.
This is also the final resting place of the comedian Spike Milligan.
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This is a detail shot I took in the King's College Chapel in Cambridge, UK. The detail of the ceiling was amazing and I wanted to capture it along with the stained glass windows. I really like the way the columns features fan out into the ceiling.
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Detalhe decorativo de uma coluna na igreja de Saint-Eustache, em Paris. A riqueza de cores e padrões geométricos realça o estilo gótico tardio, evidenciando influências renascentistas que marcam este imponente edifício do século XVI.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
This beautiful Grade II*-listed church dates from the 12th century, and has been extended over the years. The chancel was rebuilt in the late 14th century and re-roofed in the mid-19th century. The east window dates from the 19th century, when glass making seems to have been at its height. The oak pulpit dates from 1908.
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Bishop Edward King Chapel, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects.
Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, 06 July 2018
The Church of San Giovanni Battista is located in the alpine village of Mogno in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It was built between 1992 and 1996 on the site of an older church, which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.
The church was designed by the Swiss architect Mario Botta who used marble and granite from the valleys of the area.
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ARCHITECT: Emil B. Fetzer
GROUNDBREAKING: 8 September 1969
DEDICATION: 18-20 January 1972
TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 115,000 square feet
OWNER: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
On February 17, 2010, the church announced that the Ogden Temple would undergo major exterior and interior renovations that would significantly modify the look of the building. The upgrades included replacing old electrical, heating, and plumbing systems with more modern, energy-saving equipment. Additional improvements included construction of a new underground parking structure, complete re-landscaping of the temple block, and renovation of the adjacent Ogden Tabernacle, including removal of its spire. The interior was reduced from 131,000 to 115,000 sq. ft., but through an improved design, there is more usable space following the reconstruction.
Aerial view of St Peter’s Church, Blaxhall — a small, isolated medieval parish church standing amid open Suffolk farmland east of Woodbridge. The flint and stone building dates mainly from the 13th century, though parts of the nave may be earlier, with later additions in the 14th and 15th centuries. Its simple plan — comprising a west tower, nave, south porch, and chancel — is typical of Suffolk’s rural churches.
The square west tower, now enveloped in scaffolding, is currently undergoing major restoration work. The project includes repointing, structural stabilisation, and repairs to the ancient flintwork and roof timbers to ensure the church’s long-term preservation. The tin sheeting at the tower base provides weather protection during the works.
Inside, St Peter’s retains a number of notable medieval and Victorian features. The 14th-century octagonal font, carved with quatrefoils, stands near the entrance. The nave windows contain a mixture of medieval glass fragments and striking 19th-century stained glass by O’Connor and Ward, installed during the Victorian restoration. The east window depicts Christ in Majesty surrounded by angels — an excellent example of late-Victorian craftsmanship that complements the building’s medieval character.
The south porch, added in the later Middle Ages, features flint and stone dressings with an arched doorway. The interior includes timber pews, a carved pulpit, and memorials to generations of local families, reflecting centuries of village life.
The churchyard, still used occasionally for burials, contains headstones dating back to the 1600s. Many are carved from local stone, now gently leaning under the passage of time. Set among mature trees and bordered by arable fields, the church captures the quiet endurance of Suffolk’s landscape and the enduring role of its parish churches.
This photograph shows St Peter’s in autumn 2025, its tower under conservation, standing as a symbol of resilience and continuity on the ever-changing edge of the East Anglian countryside.
Saint Michael's and All Angels Church
Roman Catholic church, 1964-5, by Richard O'Mahony
Initial design was drawn up by Herbert J Rowse, with later work designed by the Borough Architect T A Brittain. The parish of St Michael and All Angels was created in 1952.
The foundation stone for a new church was laid in April 1964 and St Michael and All Angels RC Church opened on 8 September 1965
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