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RAF Biggin HIll Memorial chapel was built to commemorate airmen lost whilst flying from Biggin Hill in WWII. It was Consecrated 1951 and designed by architect W Wylton Todd ARIBA.
The pilgrimage church in Steinhausen, Biberach district, is one of the most important baroque churches in Germany.
Dominikus Zimmermann is both a master builder and plasterer, along with his brother, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, who is a fresco painter.
Both of them created a spatial work of art that is unparalleled.
In 1727, Abbot Didaktus Ströbele from Schussenried Monastery discussed the building plans with Dominikus Zimmermann for the first time. At the time, Zimmermann was busy building and furnishing the nearby monastery church in Siessen.
They reached an agreement and construction of the pilgrimage church began in 1728. It was consecrated in 1733. The church was submitted and approved with construction costs of 9,000 guilders. In the end, however, the new building cost 50,000 guilders. The shock of the immense construction costs was initially deep, but the monastery's financial situation was not affected by this. A pilgrimage also brings in Mammon.
Dominikus's high altar design was not carried out because it was considered too expensive. The idea was to have an altar based on the model of the monastery church in Rohr. At first altars by Gabriel Weiss were put up, but these were dismantled in 1750 and replaced by works by Joachim Früholz. The high altar painting was by Franz Martin Kuen.
The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe is a church in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, consecrated on 9 May 549 by the bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris, the first bishop of Ravenna and Classe.
An important monument of Byzantine art, in 1996 it was inscribed with seven other nearby monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage List, which described it as "an outstanding example of the early Christian basilica in its purity and simplicity of its design and use of space and in the sumptuous nature of its decoration".
Work on Sant'Apollinare in Classe started at the beginning of 6th century by order of Bishop Ursicinus, using money from the Roman banker Iulianus Argentarius. It was certainly located next to a Christian cemetery, and quite possibly on top of a pre-existing pagan one, as some of the ancient tombstones were re-used in its construction.
At that time, Classe was located on the shore and was the ancient home port of the Roman fleet which gave its name to the town. Due to the accumulation of silt, the coastline has since moved 9 kilometres to the east.
The imposing brick structure was consecrated on 9 May 549 by Bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris. The Basilica is thus contemporary with the Basilica of San Vitale of Ravenna. The relics of Saint Apollinaris are today in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.
In the 15th century, Sigismondo Malatesta stripped the church of the marble covering the walls of the side aisles, to use it for the construction of the Tempio Malatestiano of San Francesco in Rimini.
The exterior has a large facade with two simple uprights and one mullioned window with three openings. The narthex and building to the right of the entry are later additions, as is the fine 9th century round bell tower with mullioned windows.
Ravenna’s tallest campanile was added to the church in the late 10th century.
The church has a central nave with two side aisles, a standard basilica design. An ancient altar in the mid of the nave covers the place of the saint's martyrdom. The church ends with a polygonal apse, sided by two chapels with apses.
The nave contains 24 columns of Italian marble. The carved capitals of the columns depict acanthus leaves, but unlike most such carvings the leaves appear twisted as if being buffeted by the wind. The faded frescos depict some of the archbishops of Ravenna, and date to the 18th century. The lateral walls are bare, but were certainly once covered with gorgeous mosaics. These were likely demolished by the Venetians in 1449, although they left the mosaic decoration in the apse and on the triumphal arch, the church's most striking features.
The upper section of the triumphal arch depicts, inside a medallion, Christ. At the sides, within a sea of clouds, are the winged symbols of the four Evangelists: the Eagle (John), the Winged Man (Matthew), the Lion (Mark), the Calf (Luke). The lower section has, at its two edges, the walls showing precious gems from which twelve lambs (symbols of the Twelve Apostles) exit. The sides of the arch show two palms which, in the Bible's symbolism, represent justice; under them are the archangels Michael and Gabriel, with the bust of St. Matthew and another unidentified saint.
The decoration of the apse date to the 6th century, and can be divided into two parts:
in the upper one, a large disc encloses a starry sky in which is a cross with gems. Over the cross is a hand protruding from the clouds, the theme of the Hand of God. At the side of the disc are the figures of Elijah and Moses. The three lambs in the lower sector symbolize the saints Peter, James and John, alluding the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor.
in the lower one is a green valley with rocks, bush, plants and birds. In the middle is the figure of Saint Apollinaris, portrayed in the act of praying God to give grace to his faithful, symbolized by twelve white lambs.
The choice of the subject is closely linked to the fight against Arianism, as it restates both the divine and human nature of Christ, the former negated by the Arians. In addition, the representation of Apollinaris among the apostles was a legitimization of Maximian as the first bishop of the diocese.
In the spaces between the windows are the four bishops who founded the main basilicas in Ravenna: Urscinus, Ursus, Severus and Ecclesius, all with a book in a hand. At the sides of the apse are two 7th-century panels: the left one, which has largely been restored, portrays the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV granting privileges to an envoy of the Ravenna's archbishop. In the right panel are Abraham, Abel and Melchisedek around an altar, on which they offer a sacrifice to God.
The Basilica's walls are lined by numerous sarcophagi from different centuries. They attest the changes of style from the 5th to the 8th centuries: from reliefs with human figures of the Roman sarcophagi, to Byzantine symbolism, to the increasing abstraction and simplification of these symbologies.
Традиции Покровской ярмарки в Тамбове берут свое начало в XVIII веке. Широкая ярмарка устраивалась на Покров пресвятой Богородицы 14 октября - престольный праздник для города, в канун которого в 1637 году был освящен первый храм в крепости Тамбов.
Традиция была возобновлена в 2010 году, когда в областном центре состоялась I Международная Покровская ярмарка. Датой проведения были выбраны ближайшие к Покрову выходные, а местом народных гуляний и торговли - площадка на набережной реки Цны. Здесь размещаются торговые ряды из сотен палаток местных и зарубежных производителей, развлекательные, концертные, спортивные площадки. Pokrovskaya Fair
The traditions of the Pokrovsky Fair in Tambov originate in the 18th century. A wide fair was held on the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary on October 14 - the feast day for the city, on the eve of which in 1637 the first temple in the Tambov fortress was consecrated.
The tradition was renewed in 2010, when the I International Pokrovskaya Fair was held in the regional center. The closest to Pokrov weekend was chosen as the date, and the site on the Tsna river embankment was chosen as a place for folk festivals and trade. Here are located the rows of hundreds of tents of local and foreign manufacturers, entertainment, concert, sports grounds.
"High on a sand dune overlooking the Gulf of Mexico in Port Aransas, there is a little white Chapel, the oldest functional consecrated church on the Island. Known locally as the Chapel on the Dunes, it was built between 1937 and 1938 by Aline B. Carter. This historical church is one of the Eight Wonders of Port Aransas and is the site for many small weddings, memorial services, and baptisms".
The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Gelasius II in 1118 and was built between the twelfth century and the fourteenth century as fundamentally a medieval building, with some later additions.
All Saints was consecrated on in 1887 and is a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture standing in the centre of Gosforth, a few miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne. It's right next to the school where I teach and is the one we use for our Easter and Christmas services. As I haven't posted anything for a few days I thought it should process it from a hastily taken iPhone shot and put it into my 100x!
A detail of the exquisite ground level of the Sainte Chapelle, consecrated under King Saint-Louis in 1248. This lower chapel served as the parish church for the members of the royal palace then located on the Ile de la Cite.
For information about the architecture of this astonishing building: architecture.relig.free.fr/chapelle_en.htm
And this is what I wrote in 2005 about my experience in the upper chapel where the stained glass windows are.
Un vrai bijou de la Douce France, parmi les centaines de merveilles de ce pays de merveilles. J'aurais bien voulu reste' ici longtemps, mais la nuit tombait - c'etait la derniere visite de la journee - et nous ne pouvions pas tarder. Neanmoins j'ai tente' plusieurs photos, sans trepieds biensure, a cause de la foule qu l'on voit a peine, en bas de la photo. Quoi dire sure ce lieu: deux mots: un veritable tresor.
It was late afternoon on an overcast winter day, so the light in this astonishing jewel of a place was dim. The last time I'd marvelled at these glorious windows had been years before, when I was a teenager. It was a bright spring day and they were sparkling in the sun. On that visit, there had been barely a handful of visitors, and one could walk around with ease.
This visit was entirely different and magical in its own way. I loved how the rich colors of the glass came through better in the dim light, giving the space a more contemplative and peaceful mood. The number of visitors on the other hand, was indeed a surprise! You can see that the entire tiny space of this beloved jewel of French Medieval architecture is filled with people, many of whose faces were, like mine, tilted upwards to marvel at the sight.
There were a few attendants regularly asking the crowd to be silent so that this breathtakingly beautiful and delicate work of art could be enjoyed in the mood it was intended to be experienced. There would be a wave of voices: excited voices and whispers, that turned into a veritable din, then there would be a hushed silence for a few moments....until people's enthusiasm for the beauty took them over and once again the place would explode in a wave of intense sound, then silence again as the attendants asked for quiet. The enthusiasm and awe were palpable.
Altogether a mesmerizing and awesome masterpiece of High Gothic Medieval art. Unique because the entire chapel -- of which this is one corner -- is almost entirely made of glass, with hardly any masonry to hold up these sheets of color and light, made of 100's of 1000's of bits of gorgeous color that surround one completely with their beauty.
About the Sainte Chapelle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Chapelle
The newly consecrated National Cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church, still under construction in Bucharest
Orthodox Patriarchs of Constantinople and Bucharest consecrate Cathedral
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The Cathedral was consecrated on 25 November 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, Patriarch Daniel of Romania and Metropolitan Chrysostomos (gr) of Patras from the Greek Orthodox Church.
Construction date: 1886-1898 (built in stages) - Architect: Benjamin Mountfort - Architectural style: Carpenter Gothic
"St Mary's Cathedral Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is the former Cathedral Church of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland. Located in Parnell, it replaced the earlier Old St Mary's. This wooden Gothic Revival church was designed by the prominent Christchurch architect Benjamin Mountfort and completed in 1897. The building served as the Cathedral Church and principal Anglican church of Auckland until 1973 when the Chancel of Holy Trinity Cathedral, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1957, came into use. In 1982 St Mary's Church was moved across Parnell Road to its present site beside the Cathedral.
Old St Mary's, as it came to be known, was replaced by a large wooden church, for which the Foundation Stone was laid in 1886. At more than 50 metres long, it is the largest wooden Gothic church in the world. Its English born architect Benjamin Mountfort had become one of New Zealand's most eminent architects, responsible for many of the Gothic Revival buildings in Christchurch. St Mary's is the most impressive of his wooden church designs.
The original intention had been to build the church in stone, but the plan had been rejected as too expensive. Mountfort seems to have ignored the perishable and limited qualities of wood, and built a vast church worthy of the finest stone. St Mary's covers an area of 9,000 square feet (840 m2) and has architectural features normally associated only with the great medieval cathedrals of Europe.
Bishop William Cowie instigated the decision to make St Mary's the Cathedral Church during 1887, and the first part of the church, consisting of the Chancel and three bays of the Nave was consecrated and used from 1888.
The church was completed to its present state by the addition of the four final bays and consecrated in 1898. It was Mountfort's final large scale work.
Externally the most noticeable architectural features of the long rectangular building are the numerous gables of the mostly single story structure. The gables, often placed above lancet shaped windows, serve to accentuate the Gothic motifs. This is particularly evident on the exterior of the altar tribune where three tall narrow windows rise up into the gables themselves, the tribune itself is three sided, the wooden construction making the traditional Romanesque curve in stone impossible.
The opposing end of the church containing the principal entrance, displays the full height of the building with one large gable, containing not only ground floor windows but two levels of clerestory windows above. The gable here slopes at two angles. The architect's reasoning for this was to increase the height of the gable at the façade's centre, rather than allow it to rise uniformly according to the width of the building. This central steeper roof pitch increased the ceiling height to the central aisle, as would be found over the central aisle of a true Gothic cathedral. However, the resultant effect has been to create a gable which to European eyes appears as though designed to bear the weight of heavy snow falls. In an area where snow does not occur this gives the façade, with its protruding decorated architrave above the first clerestory, an almost whimsical Swiss chalet atmosphere, which adds greatly to the building's individuality. Almost a hundred years later this feature was subtly suggested in the corresponding roof-line of the new Cathedral Nave.
In 1982 St Mary's Church was moved into the precinct of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, a major feat of engineering when the church was transported across the road and turned through 90° onto its present site."
Extract sourced from Wikipedia: St Mary's Cathedral Church (10th June 2013)
The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Gelasius II in 1118 and was built between the twelfth century and the fourteenth century as fundamentally a medieval building, with some later additions.
Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, Twelfth Consecrated Ruler of Sikkim, was born in Sikkim’s capital Gangtok on 22nd May 1923.
In March 1963 he married Hope Coke, grand daughter and ward of Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Noyes of the United States of America. The boy on her left is Crown Prince Tenzing.
In April 1975 the Indian army moved into Sikkim, seizing the city of Gangtok, disarming the Palace Guards putting the Chogyal under house arrest. A “referendum” was held ,in which 97.5% of the people voted to join the Indian Union. China did not recognize India’s occupation of Sikkim until 2003.
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The newly consecrated National Cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church, still under construction in Bucharest
Orthodox Patriarchs of Constantinople and Bucharest consecrate Cathedral
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The Cathedral was consecrated on 25 November 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, Patriarch Daniel of Romania and Metropolitan Chrysostomos (gr) of Patras from the Greek Orthodox Church.
The Sainte-Chapelle is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris.
Construction began sometime after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248. The Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture.
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Grey Skies over Parish Church of St.Sebastian Ramsau
The parish church Saint Sebastian is the parish church of Ramsau nearby Berchtesgaden . It is consecrated to the saints Sebastian and Fabian. Particularly from the "Malerwinkel" with the Ramsauer Ache and the Ertlsteg in the foreground and the Reiteralpe in the background the church is a popular picture and photo motive .Alanpt2015©
A Palace chapel fit for a king, richly decorated and spacious.
This is the fifth chapel in the evolving palace, begun in 1689, the building was finaly completed in 1710 and dedicated to Saint Louis, patron saint of the Bourbons.
The chapel was de-consecrated in the 19th century and has since served as a venue for state and private events. Musical concerts are often held in the chapel of Versailles.
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A "Alegoria Eucarística", painel de azulejos policromados executado em Lisboa por volta de 1660 para o extinto Convento de Sant'Ana e atualmente parte da coleção do Museu Nacional do Azulejo (inv. 161 Az), ilustra a devoção eucarística característica da Contrarreforma. A composição central apresenta um cálice e uma custódia radiante contendo a hóstia consagrada, ladeados por anjos adoradores, numa representação simbólica da presença real de Cristo na Eucaristia, como reforça a inscrição "Louvado seja o Santíssimo Sacramento". A técnica utilizada, típica da azulejaria seiscentista portuguesa, emprega tons de azul, amarelo e branco, com uma moldura decorativa de motivos vegetalistas. Esta iconografia, comum em espaços conventuais da época, reflete a intensificação do culto eucarístico promovida pelo movimento da Contrarreforma. A peça constitui um testemunho relevante da produção cerâmica lisboeta do século XVII.
The “Eucharistic Allegory”, a polychrome tile panel made in Lisbon around 1660 for the now-defunct Convent of Sant'Ana and currently part of the collection of the National Tile Museum (inv. 161 Az), illustrates the Eucharistic devotion characteristic of the Counter-Reformation. The central composition features a chalice and a radiant monstrance containing the consecrated host, flanked by adoring angels, in a symbolic representation of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, as reinforced by the inscription “Praised be the Blessed Sacrament”. The technique used, typical of Portuguese 17th century tiles, uses shades of blue, yellow and white, with a decorative frame of plant motifs. This iconography, common in convent spaces at the time, reflects the intensification of Eucharistic worship promoted by the Counter-Reformation movement. The piece is an important testimony to Lisbon's ceramic production in the 17th century.
Consecrated by the most powerful of the medieval popes, Innocent III, in 1198, the cathedral has several unusual features. The Renaissance portico incorporates two pulpits; four rose windows and four circular emblems of the Evangelists adorn its facade, surrounding a gold-ground Byzantine-style mosaic of Christ Enthroned with Mary and John the Baptist.
The lower middle 'rosone' is an exceptional example of the Cosmatesque work imported from Rome - stone or enamel chips in sinuous patterns.
Inside the choir of Winchester Cathedral.
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the Church of England’s Diocese of Winchester.
The cathedral as it stands today was built from 1079 to 1532. It has a very long and very wide nave in the Perpendicular Gothic style, an Early English retrochoir, and Norman transepts and tower. With an overall length of 170 metres, it is the longest medieval cathedral in the world, and only surpassed by five more churches, four of them built in the 20th Century. It is also the sixth-largest cathedral by area in England.
The first Christian church in Winchester can be traced back to c. 648, when King Cenwalh of Wessex built a small, cross-shaped building just north of the present building. This ‘Old Minster’, became the cathedral for the new Diocese of Winchester in 662, but no trace of it other than its ground plan exists today. From 963 to 993, bishop Æthelwold and then Alphege greatly expanded the church, which was briefly the largest church in Europe. Also on the same site was the New Minster, in direct competition with the neighbouring Old Minster, begun by Alfred the Great but completed in 901 by his son Edward the Elder.
The present building, however, was begun after the Norman Conquest, perhaps inevitably. William the Conqueror installed his friend and relative Walkelin as the first Norman Bishop of Winchester in 1070, and nine years later, in 1079, Walkelin began the construction of a huge new Norman cathedral, on a site just to the south of the Old and New Minsters, the site of the present building. The new cathedral was consecrated with the completion of the east end in 1093, and the following day, demolition of the New and Old Minsters began and left virtually no remains.
Work quickly progressed to the transepts and central tower, and these were certainly complete by 1100. In 1107, the central tower fell but was reconstructed and much of the work on this core of the present building was completed by 1129 to a very high standard, much of it surviving today.
A new Early English retrochoir was started in 1202, but the next expansions after that would not start until 1346, when Bishop Edington demolished the Norman west front and began building a new Perpendicular Gothic facade, featuring a huge west window, which still stands today. Edington also began renovation of the nave, but this was mostly carried out by his successors, most notably William of Wykeham and his master mason, William Wynford, who remodelled the massive Norman nave into a soaring Perpendicular Gothic masterpiece. This they achieved by encasing the Norman stone in new ashlar, recutting the piers with Gothic mouldings and pointed arches, and reorganising the three-tier nave into two tiers, by extending the arcade upwards into what was the triforium and extending the clerestory downwards to meet it. The wooden ceiling was replaced with a decorative stone vault. Following Wykeham's death in 1404, this remodelling work continued under successive bishops, being completed ca. 1420.
Between then and 1528, major rebuilding and expansion was carried out on the Norman choir and Early English retrochoir. This work included the building of further chantry chapels, the replacement of the Norman east end with a Perpendicular Gothic presbytery, and the extension of Luci's retrochoir into a Lady Chapel. Unlike the rebuilding of the nave some 100 years earlier, the Gothic presbytery was vaulted in wood and painted to look like stone, as at York Minster. With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 34 metres beyond that of Walkelin's building.
With Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory of Saint Swithun, was dissolved in 1539, and the cathedral’s shrines and altar were destroyed. The monastic buildings, including the cloister and chapter house, were later demolished, mostly during the 1560–1580 tenure of the reformist bishop Robert Horne.
The 17th century saw important changes to the interior, including the erection of a choir screen by Inigo Jones in 1638–39, the insertion of a wooden fan vault underneath the crossing tower (previously the tower was open to the church) and the destruction of much medieval glass and imagery by Parliamentarian soldiers in December 1642, including the near-complete destruction of the massive Great West Window by Cromwell and his forces. The window was put back together by the townspeople as a mosaic following the Restoration of the Monarchy, but it has never regained its original appearance, the damage was too great.
In the 18th century, many visitors commented on the neglect of the cathedral and the town; Daniel Defoe described the latter in about 1724 as “a place of no trade… no manufacture, no navigation”. Major restoration, however, followed in the early 19th Century under the direction of architect William Garbett and then John Nash
At the turn of the 20th century, Winchester Cathedral was in grave danger of collapse. Huge cracks had appeared in the walls, some of them large enough for a small child to crawl into, the walls were bulging and leaning, and stone fell from the walls. After several false solutions that may have made things worse, over six years from 1906-12, diver William Walker worked six or seven hour shifts every day diving through septic water full of corpses and laying a new cement under-layer for the cathedral and its foundations. Walker laid more than 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks. In 1911, flying buttresses were also added along the length of the south nave to complete the work.
In 2011, a new single-story extension in the corner of the north presbytery aisle was completed, the first new extension on the cathedral since the mid-16th Century, housing toilet facilities, storage and a new boiler. An extensive programme of interior restoration was completed between 2012-19.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
photo taken on the Campanile (St Mark's Square)!
San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The isle is surrounded by Canale della Grazia, Canale della Giudecca, Saint Mark Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern lagoon. It forms part of the San Marco sestiere.
The island was probably occupied in the Roman period; after the foundation of Venice it was called Insula Memmia after the Memmo family who owned it. By 829 it had a church consecrated to St George; thus it was designated as San Giorgio Maggiore to be distinguished from San Giorgio in Alga.
The Monastery of San Giorgio was established in 982, when the Benedictine monk, Giovanni Morosini asked the doge Tribuno Memmo to donated the whole island for a Monastery. Morosini drained the island's marshes next to the church to get the ground for building, and founded the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, and became its first abbot.
San Giorgio is now best known for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Palladio and begun in 1566.
In the early 19th century, after the Republic fell, the monastery was almost suppressed and the island became a free port with a new harbour built in 1812. It became the home of Venice's artillery.
It is now the headquarters of the Cini Foundation arts centre, known for its library and is also home to the Teatro Verde open-air theatre.
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The church of St. Nicholas was consecrated in 1290. Used as a court church until the end of the 15th century, today it belongs to a Lutheran congregation. Interesting are the statues of Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) and the carillon with 40 bells, which plays German folk songs twice a day.
The newly consecrated National Cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church, still under construction in Bucharest
Orthodox Patriarchs of Constantinople and Bucharest consecrate Cathedral
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The Cathedral was consecrated on 25 November 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, Patriarch Daniel of Romania and Metropolitan Chrysostomos (gr) of Patras from the Greek Orthodox Church.
A beautiful Eastern Spot-billed Duck glides slowly over the tranquil waters of Tenryu-ji zen temple pond.
"Tenryu-ji was established in 1339 by the shogun Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358) in memory of Emperor Go-Daigo (1288-1339), with the eminent Zen master Muso Soseki (1275-1351) appointed as founding abbot. Landed estates were donated to the new temple to help fund its construction, but as the resulting revenues proved insufficient Muso Soseki and Ashikaga Tadayoshi devised a plan to send two trading ships to China and use the resulting profits to complete Tenryu-ji's construction. This plan was a great success, and the temple was officially consecrated in 1345. It was designated first among Kyoto's Five Mountains (the city's five major Zen temples), a ranking it maintains to the present day"
Source: Tenryu-ji official homepage.
High about the medieval town on the Eichberg recumbent ones, to holy Nicholas of Myra consecrated church is to be added to the brick Romanesque and is dated on the beginning of the 13th century, because on the one hand the place Mölln after the list of the Ratzeburger chapter still about 1194 to the parish belonged to Breitenfelde, is mentioned but then already in the Ratzeburger tenth register of 1230 even as a place with a church.
The church was built as a Late-Romanesque pillar basilica. Model for this church construction the basilica old brim might have been. The choral space was supposed around 1217 was ready when the bishop from Ratzeburg held here the first synod.
In the second half of the 15th century the church received important rebuildings: In 1470/71 the south ship was extended Gothic, grown in 1497 to the east to this the today's baptistry and the originally double-storied sacristy. On the north side of the nave a chapel consecrated to the holy Jobst was grown. In 1896 the church was radically redeveloped. Besides, the Jobstkapelle and the upper floor of the sacristy were torn off, partly because of dilapidation, partly to restore the basilikalen overall impression. The south ship received a new roof with three saddle roofs, and the painting was restored inside partly, was explained partly anew in the style of the new Gothic. Most neo-Gothic paintings were removed in 1959 again.
Interior of Torpo stave church, located in the village of Ål municipality, in Buskerud County, Norway. On the ceiling, the church contains medieval paintings of great quality. In 1160, the stave church was consecrated to St Margaret. The legend about her martyrdom decorates the baldachin in paintings from the latter half 13th century.
More of the medieval paintings at
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Consecrated in 1854, All Saints’ Anglican Church is oldest surviving church in Mount Pleasant just outside of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. It is of the Gothic-vernacular style architecture, typical of early Upper Canadian church architecture. Vernacular architecture relies on the local resources and skills available. In the case of this church, local parishioners helped to build the church with whatever construction skills they possessed, using lumber milled on the Ferris farm nearby.
All Saints’ Anglican Church is a single detached building with a rectangular plan and single centre inset tower. This tower is square shaped with finials on top of all four corners, features that resemble an English parish church. The main entrance is on the gable façade and consists of centre double doors. The church has a medium pitched roof and is made of horizontal vinyl siding. The church’s Gothic features include centre pointed Gothic windows and a unique Gothic transom above the main entryway. The trim on the roof features eaves with return. Stained glass windows are present that were first added in 1908.
The interior of the church has original oak furnishings including oak pews. There are pine floor boards and an altar, both of which are also original features.
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The Temple of Bel (Arabic: معبد بل) was an ancient stone ruin located in Palmyra, Syria. The temple, consecrated to the Semitic god Bel, worshipped at Palmyra in triad with the lunar god Aglibol and the sun god Yarhibol, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra and was dedicated in 32 CE. Its ruins were considered among the best preserved at Palmyra. The temple was at least partially destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in August 2015.
An attempt to illustrate two related definitions, from the 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (Yes, there is an Easy Street in Aiken, SC!) The next photo on this photostream served as the background for this poster.
Holiness, it said, is the state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity, freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence, and the state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God.
Sanctification is being made holy, or set apart.
We can't achieve perfection in this life -- we will make mistakes -- except that we can have perfect motives, God helping us.
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The Saints Peter and Paul church (1879-1880) a design by the Dutch architect Evert Margry. The building is a cruciform basilica in neo-Gothic style with round shapes. Inside there are murals by painter Jan Dunselman. The church has a picturesque location, directly on the Vliet canal. The Catholic Church was consecrated in 1880 and is used by the Trinitas Parish. The start of the unfinished left tower is remakable. The church does have a stair tower on the Vliet side and a ridge turret.
The church is a registered national monument.
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Naples is the third-largest city of Italy after Rome and Milan and one of the most densely populated cities in Europe. First settled by Greeks in the second millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the 6th century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. Naples' historic city centre is the largest in Europe and has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Pizza was invented here but the restaurants in Naples have earned the most stars from the Michelin Guide of any Italian city. People awarded the honorary citizenship of Naples are: Sophia Loren & Diego Maradona. When Maradona arrived in Naples, they won the Italian and European titles for the first time. Maradona’s photo was hung next to Jesus in half of the homes of Naples. Naples is a real raw working city, a place with fascinating art and viewpoints, spontaneous conversations and unexpected, pleasant attitude. Naples has an enormous wealth of cultural treasures. You will find two royal palaces, three castles and ancient ruins with some of the oldest frescoes of Christianity. The Duomo di Napoli is very impressive located in the middle of the historic centre. The Cathedral is the heart of Napoli. This cathedral, Gothic in design and completed in the 14th century and since then restored several times over, is the home to the crypt and the chapel. Also it is where the Festival of San Gennaro, the infamous blood liquefaction ceremony takes place three times a year. It always works, otherwise Naples with face some bad doings.
Naples Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, the main church of Naples, southern Italy, and the seat of the Archbishop of Naples. It is widely known as the Cattedrale di San Gennaro. We attend mass in this beautiful cathedral and then spent a happy couple of hours walking round and enjoying the beauty, peace and tranquility of this wonderful place. In the interior of the main Cathedral of Naples, you can see numerous murals, mosaics, and chapel, different time of construction. In the center is the main altar, consisting of a block of white marble, decorated with bas-reliefs, on the front side, by an anonymous sculptor of the eighteenth century, depicts the resurrected Christ. The inner space of the Cathedral has the shape of a Latin cross, consists of a main hall, divided into three naves with lateral chapels. Three passes of the main hall are separated by a sequence of eight pillars on each side, which include Roman columns, which are based on pointed arches, decorated with stucco and marble. The ceiling of the main nave is decorated with gilt and five paintings of 17th century. Next to the cathedral is the old seminary of Naples consecrated in 1568.
Napels is na Rome en Milaan de derde stad van Italië en een van de dichtstbevolkte steden van Europa. Napels, voor het eerst bewoond door Grieken in het tweede millennium voor Christus. Het historische stadscentrum van Napels is het grootste van Europa en staat op de Werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO. Napels is een echte rauwe werkstad, een plek met fascinerende kunst en uitzichtpunten, spontane gesprekken en onverwachte, prettige instelling. De Duomo di Napoli is zeer indrukwekkend gelegen in het midden van het historische centrum. De kathedraal is het hart van Napels. Deze kathedraal, gotisch van ontwerp en voltooid in de 14e eeuw en sindsdien verschillende keren gerestaureerd, is de thuisbasis van de crypte en de kapel. Het is ook waar het Festival van San Gennaro, de beruchte bloedvloeiingsceremonie, driemaal per jaar plaatsvindt. Het werkt altijd, anders staat Napels voor een aantal slechte daden. Afhankelijk van de richting waar je vandaan komt, kan het heel moeilijk te vinden zijn, als je van de voorkant komt is het prima, zoals op een grotere hoofdweg, maar één ingang komt meer uit een steegje en je denkt dat je op de verkeerde plek bent, maar je gaat niet alleen de trap op. We wonen de mis bij in deze prachtige kathedraal en brachten vervolgens een paar gelukkige uren door met rondlopen en genieten van de schoonheid, vrede en rust van deze prachtige plek. In het midden staat het hoofdaltaar, bestaande uit een blok wit marmer, versierd met bas-reliëfs, aan de voorzijde, door een anonieme beeldhouwer uit de achttiende eeuw, toont de herrezen Christus. De binnenruimte van de kathedraal heeft de vorm van een Latijns kruis en bestaat uit een grote zaal, verdeeld met zijkapellen. Drie doorgangen van de grote zaal worden gescheiden door een reeks van acht pilaren, waaronder Romeinse zuilen versierd met stucwerk en marmer. Het plafond van het middenschip is versierd en verguld met vijf schilderijen uit de 17e eeuw. Naast de kathedraal staat het oud seminarie van Napels ingewijd in 1568, tegenwoordig een archief.
St Marks Anglican Church.
Erected in 1878 the original St Mark's Anglican Church building is today used as the parish hall which is today located at the rear of the current St Mark's church building.
The present St Mark Evangelist Anglican Church building was consecrated by Dr Cambridge, Bishop of Bathurst on 24/11/1909.
St Mark Evangelist Anglican Church Millthorpe, New South Wales, Anglican Church building was consecrated by Dr Cambridge, Bishop of Bathurst on 24/11/1909.
St Mark Evangelist Anglican Church Millthorpe, New South Wales, Australia.
This is the Romanesque church of Sant Feliu de Fontcoberta . The temple was consecrated in 922, but the current building is the twelfth century, with a presbytery renovated in the sixteenth century.
I love old, plain structures like this, and marvel at how they have weathered many centuries.
As I looked at the very solid metal-clad door, I noted there were five keyholes.
I am sure there are many stories to tell here.
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St. Petri ist seit Abriss des Hamburger Mariendoms in 1805 die älteste noch bestehende Kirche in Hamburg. Der erste Bau der Petrikirche war eine Holzkapelle aus dem Beginn des 11. Jahrhunderts, die ihre erste urkundliche Niederschrift in 1195 fand. Heute wie damals befindet sie sich an der Mönckebergstraße. Wann der Holzbau durch einen Steinbau ersetzt wurde ist historisch nicht überliefert. Zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts ermöglichte der zunehmende Wohlstand der Hamburger Bürger den Ausbau der Kirche zu einer dreischiffigen gotischen Hallenkirche aus Backstein. Ein bronzener Türzieher, der einen Löwenkopf darstellt, ist das älteste noch erhaltene Kunstwerk der Hansestadt. Seine Umschrift belegt die Grundsteinlegung des Turms im Jahr 1342. Mit dem Anbau eines zweiten südlichen Mit dem Anbau eines zweiten südlichen Seitenschiffes gegen 1418 waren die wesentlichen Erweiterungsbauten abgeschlossen. Der von 1513 bis 1516 umgebaute Kirchturm war mit 127,5 Metern Höhe der höchste der Stadt – bis im Jahr 1518 der 135 Meter hohe Kirchturm von St. Nikolai fertiggestellt wurde. Während des Großen Brandes brannte die Kirche am 7. Mai 1842 völlig aus. Ein Großteil Doch bereits zwei Jahre später wurde sie mit einer Ausrichtung in Richtung Kanzel erneut aufgebaut. Sieben Jahre später konnte der Kirchenbau, der sich teils an seinem mittelalterlichen Vorgänger und teils an neuen Elementen orientierte, geweiht werden. Seitenschiffes gegen 1418 waren die wesentlichen Erweiterungsbauten abgeschlossen. Der von 1513 bis 1516 umgebaute Kirchturm war mit 127,5 Metern Höhe der höchste der Stadt – bis im Jahr 1518 der 135 Meter hohe Kirchturm von St. Nikolai fertiggestellt wurde. Während des Großen Brandes brannte die Kirche am 7. Mai 1842 völlig aus. Ein Großteil der Mauern fiel anschließend in sich zusammen. Die meisten Kunstwerke konnten jedoch vor den Flammen gerettet werden. Bereits zwei Jahre später wurde sie mit einer Ausrichtung in Richtung Kanzel erneut aufgebaut. Sieben Jahre später konnte der Kirchenbau, der sich teils an seinem mittelalterlichen Vorgänger und teils an neuen Elementen orientierte, geweiht werden. Die Bombardements des 2. Weltkriegs überstand die Kirche mit nur geringen Schäden.
Since the demolition of Hamburg's St. Mary's Cathedral in 1805, St. Peter's is the oldest church still in existence in Hamburg. The first building of St. Peter's Church was a wooden chapel from the beginning of the 11th century, which found its first documentary record in 1195. Today, as then, it is located on Mönckebergstraße. When the wooden building was replaced by a stone building is not historically known. At the beginning of the 14th century, the increasing prosperity of Hamburg's citizens made it possible to expand the church into a three-nave Gothic hall church made of brick. A bronze door pull representing a lion's head is the oldest surviving work of art in the Hanseatic city. Its inscription attests to the laying of the foundation stone of the tower in 1342. With the addition of a second southern With the addition of a second southern aisle around 1418, the main expansion work was completed. The church tower, which was rebuilt from 1513 to 1516, was the tallest in the city at 127.5 meters - until the 135-meter-high steeple of St. Nicholas' was completed in 1518. During the Great Fire, the church burned out completely on May 7, 1842. However, a large part of it was rebuilt just two years later with an orientation towards the pulpit. Seven years later, the church building, which was partly based on its medieval predecessor and partly on new elements, could be consecrated. By 1418, the main extensions to the nave had been completed. The church tower, which was rebuilt from 1513 to 1516, was the highest in the city at 127.5 meters high - until the 135-meter-high steeple of St. Nicholas was completed in 1518. During the Great Fire, the church burned down completely on May 7, 1842. A large part of the walls subsequently collapsed. However, most of the works of art were saved from the flames. Just two years later, it was rebuilt with an orientation towards the pulpit. Seven years later, the church building, which was partly based on its medieval predecessor and partly on new elements, could be consecrated. The church survived the bombings of the 2nd World War almost without damage.
Consecrated by the Archbishop of York, William Maclagan, on the 12th October 1896.A story says that each day when the builders arrived they would say, "We'll toss a coin. An if it stays up in t'air, we'll work. But if it comes down we'll go to t'Sun Inn for a beer". It's a wonder it ever got built.
The newly consecrated National Cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church, still under construction in Bucharest
Orthodox Patriarchs of Constantinople and Bucharest consecrate Cathedral
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_People%27s_Salvation_Cathe...
The Cathedral was consecrated on 25 November 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, Patriarch Daniel of Romania and Metropolitan Chrysostomos (gr) of Patras from the Greek Orthodox Church.
Very few churches in Cornwall have spires or steeples and one of the exceptions is the Grade I-listed Church of St Germanus at Rame in the far south-east of Cornwall. This was consecrated in 1259, possibly on earlier foundations. The tower and the spire both date from the 13th century, which is earlier than the spires of many churches in this country. It is a landmark that can be seen from many miles around.
The church was consecrated on 6 December 1329, after the consecration of the cemetery and the altars. The church factory continued throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, and the construction phases are reconstructed through the church registers with the entrances and exits and which are located in the archives of the State of Verona. It is known that between 1341 and 1342 three altars were built and consecrated: the altar of the Holy Face, of Saint George and of Saint Mary Magdalene, while between 1343 and 1345 the bell tower was built, whose bell was bought in 1348 to Venice.
Церковь была освящена 6 декабря 1329 года, после освящения кладбища и алтарей. Церковная фабрика продолжалась в течение 14 и 15 веков, а этапы строительства восстанавливаются через церковные регистры с входами и выходами, которые находятся в архивах штата Верона. Известно, что между 1341 и 1342 годами были построены и освящены три алтаря: алтарь Святого Лица, Святого Георгия и Святой Марии Магдалины, а между 1343 и 1345 годами была построена колокольня, колокол которой был куплен в 1348 году. Венеция.
Building the church commenced in 1841 at a cost of £2,500 to 5th Earl Fitzwilliam of Wentworth. It was consecrated by the Archbishop of York on Whit Monday in 1843.
Duomo Square
New comers to Messina's Piazza Duomo, cannot but admire its fountain, the evocative bell tower and the splendid Norman Cathedral. The Fountain of Orion, created in celebration of the city's first aqueduct, dates from 1500 and was by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, a collaborator and disciple of Michaelangelo. This splendid classical fountain represents four rivers, the Nile, Tiber, Ebro and the Canaro. The upper cistern is decorated with lines of latin verse, and is crowned with Orion, mythical founder of Messina.
Left of the Duomo the monument to the Immaculate Madonna, originally in another spot but since relocated to the piazza in 1900.
The broad façade of the Duomo dominates the scene; originally commissioned by the Normans, and rebuilt after the Saracens desecrated it. Consecrated by the Swabians, it was embellished and cared for over the centuries, till it was finally destroyed by the devastating earthquake of 1908. Only fragments of the original walls now remain.
Its reconstruction in 1919 was conducted to adhere both to the original Norman model, but with various additions from later periods. Thus Renaissance, Baroque and decorations right up to the 1900's may be admired there. The statues, mosaics and marbles are almost all copies, as the originals were sadly lost.
The distinctive façade, decorated with colored bands, adorned with marble and reliefs of the fourteenth century depicts everyday events of fourteenth century life, from cultivating the fields to domestic living. The three entrances to the cathedral are Gothic.
The upper level of the façade is in bicolored stone.
The interior of the church has been almost completely restored, with earthquakes in mind: the twenty four columns dividing the nave into Isles, are cement, coated in fake marble, designed to sustain the shock of tremors without further serious damage.
The imposing bell tower also constructed in 1900, rises to the left of the Duomo's façade, and for those willing to scale its heights, affords a splendid view from the top.
Every side of the square tower is decorated with a gleaming clock face. Other decorative dials indicate the signs of the zodiac and the annual calendar with golden mechanical figures which move at the striking of midday
A soldier of the infamous Separatist unit 'Les Tempêtes' is ritually consecrated following intense fighting in the area known unofficially as 'Suicide Boulevard'.
Palatine Chapel, Aachen, begun c. 792, consecrated 805 (thought to have been designed by Odo of Metz), significant changes to the architectural fabric 14–17th centuries (Gothic apse, c. 1355; dome rebuilt and raised in the 17th century, etc), mosaics and revetment scream 19th century, and are indeed 19th century, columns were looted by French troops in the 18th century though many were later returned, they were added back without knowledge as to their original locations in the 19th century. Finally, the structure was also heavily damaged by allied bombing during WWII and significantly restored again in the second half of the twentieth century.
In 1508 the parish church was consecrated to the Virgin´s Assumption.
The mainly Gothic church first appeared in historical documents in 1111. The foundation of the original church (made of wood) was not documented.
In 1128 the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Passau. The wooden church was replaced by a stone building and only after the Bohemian Wars the Gothic-style nave was added. The church´s most characteristic features are the hall featuring three naves and the outstanding rib vault built in 1508.
Churches like this church can be found in many places in Mühlviertel, the region between Linz and Czech border.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speyer_Cathedral#Crypt
Over the centuries, crypts developed from tiny chambers into large semi-subterranean and very articulated hall crypts, which became standard forms in Italy and Germany, sometimes extending under the transepts as well as the chancel. The monumental crypt of Speyer Cathedral, consecrated in 1041, is the largest Romanesque columned hall crypt in Europe, with an area of 850 m2 (9,149 sq ft) and a height of approx. 7 m. Forty-two groin-vaults are supported on twenty cylindrical columns with simple cushion capitals. The sandstone blocks alternate in colour between yellow and rust, a typical design of the Salian and Staufer era, and providing the context of the colour-scheme of the 19th century facade. The "architectural clarity is quite exceptional, a result of the precise execution of the base moldings and the cushion capitals, together with the emphatic system of transverse arches."[27](see detail below)
Chorraum der Domkrypta
Today's Melhus church was designed by Carl Julius Bergstrøm in 1888 and consecrated on November 10, 1892. It is a neo-Gothic cruciform church in grey stone with around 500 seats, according to Kirkesøk (originally 800). The church has a West tower, and the chancel is polygonal and surrounded by sacristies.
The churchyard contains a cemetery.
In 1889, a Royal Decree was issued which ordered that the old Melhus Church be demolished. During this demolition, in 1890, a perfectly preserved hatchet dating from about 1100 was discovered in a wall of the medieval church. This axe was identified as the country's only preserved tool for cutting stone (Norwegian: "steinhuggerøks") from that period, and it is now located in the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
Although the old church was torn down, several architectural elements of the medieval building were saved and incorporated into the new building. Much woodwork from the old church was included in the newer one. The old portal was also reused in the new church.
Apparently, a few artefacts from the old church were not moved to the new church, and instead ended up in other places.
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