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View of an ancient chandelier inside the Church of Kish, also known by different sources as Church of Saint Elishe or Holy Mother of God Church, an inactive 12th or 13th century Caucasian Albanian church located in the village of Kiş approximately 5 km north of Sheki, Azerbaijan. It has functioned at different times as a Caucasian Albanian Apostolic church a Chalcedonian church within the Georgian Orthodox Church and later as Armenian Apostolic Church.
The Church of Kish is the best place anywhere to learn about mysterious Caucasian Albania, the Christian nation that once covered most of northern Azerbaijan. In fact, the church site goes back well beyond the Christian era.
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Interior view of the main prayer hall in the Temple of Caishen (God of Wealth), constructed in 326 A.D., sitting on top of a hill by the shore of West Lake, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province of China.
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The WWF considers the Indian Elephant widely distributed, but classified as an endangered species since 1996 by the Asian Elephant Specialist Group, the current population of the Indian Elephant is in the range of 20,000-25,000;Â Indian Elephants are threatened by several factors such as ivory tusks traffic, loss of habitat due to human pressure on forested areas and human conflict; the isolated wild elephants in individual wildlife sanctuaries are also endangered by loss of habitat; wild elephants often enter villages and kill people, like in Orissa, recently, Indian authorities have decided to stop keeping elephants in zoos, and transferred them to national parks
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Beautiful fresco on the interior wall of Đakovo Cathedral (Cathedral of St. Peter), a Roman Catholic Church built in 18th century, in Đakovo, Osijek-Baranja county, Slavonia region of Croatia.
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Singapore, Singapore - August 25, 2013: A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) pump-ladder fire engine, stationed at Central Fire Station near City Hall. Central Fire Station is also home to a fire museum and its grounds are open for free guided tours.
This solo high heel shoe was found near my storage unit. This is the first image in this ongoing series.
Image is geo-tagged if you want to see where it was found click the link to the right.
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Asmara is a city of Eritrea, a country of the Africa. It is the capital of Eritea. About five hundred thousand people live in Asmara. The architecture of Asmara was influenced by the Italian colonization.
The town of Asmara was colonized by the Italians. It was colonized in 1889. The town of Asmara became the national capital of the colony in 1897. In 1913 and then later in 1915, Asmara suffered knew some damages because of earthquakes. That is one of the reason why in the 1930’s, the Italians modified the architecture of the city. They built new buildings. Most of the actual center of the town was built by the Italians. The city looked like Roma. Asmara was called "Piccola Roma" (the little Roma). Nowadays, most of the buildings of Asmara have an italian origin. Some shops are still named in Italian.
The three main architectural styles you will find in Asmara are the art deco style, the Victorian style and the Italian new roman style. The Impero Cinema is a famous art deco building of Asmara. As famous as well, there is the Pension Africa, a cubist building. The Europeans at that time used to say that Asmara was a place to experiment “new radical designs”. Some buildings are neo-Romanesque, such as the Roman Catholic Cathedral, some villas are built in a late Victorian style. Art Deco influences are found throughout the city. Architects were restricted by nothing.
There are a lot of religious sites in the town of Asmara. Such as the catholic cathedral, the eclectic cathedral, mosquees, and the copte Nda Mariam cathedral which is one of the most impressive buildings of Asmara. Colored wall pictures done by contemporary artists can be seen in different parts of the town. The town also has traditional markets. It has little shops. The inhabitants are reputed warm and open people.
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The Maha Kumbh Mela is the largest religious gathering on earth, and takes place every 12 years on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati., the Kumbh Mela took place in Allahabad in 2013 and attracted more than 100 million people,
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52 Weeks the 2015 Edition • "7 Deadly Sins"
The is the beach along Big Chico Creek where I take my dog swimming most mornings. It never ceases to amaze me the trash people leave on a daily basis. People are especially lazy in the summer months.
Lower Bidwell Park Sandy Beach near Sycamore Field.
Morning sunlight shines through colorful stained glass windows inside main prayer hall of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, also known as the Pink mosque, situated in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province of Iran.
Nasir al-Mulk mosque was built during the Qajar era, between 1876 to 1888, by the order of Mirzā Hasan Ali (Nasir ol Molk), a Qajar ruler. It includes extensive colored glass in its facade, and displays other traditional elements such as the Panj Kāse ("five concaved") design.
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When the Surma shepherds leave their village, they paint their bodies like for a camouflage;
Like their neighbours, the Surma, living in Omo valley, Ethiopia, paint their bodies; They create a variety of designs on their naked bodies using their fingertips, which helps exposing their dark skins and aims at beautifying themselves and frightenning their opponents; Surma men, generally believed to be expert artists, also paint the girls;
Surma or Suri is a sedentary pastoral tribe living in south west Ethiopia, in Omo Valley on the western bank of the Omo River, in Kibish and Tulgit areas;
Itâs quite common to see men and women carrying Kalashnikovs, which are part of the daily life; Their land has always been a place of traditional rivalries amoung neighbouring tribes such as the Bume (Nyangatom) or the Toposa from Sudan who regularly team up to raid on their cattle; These fights have become quite bloody since automatic firearms have become available during in the Sudanese Civil War;
Only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, Ethiopiaâs official language, and the literacy level is very low; Lip plate and Donga stick fights are the two typical distinctive features of these people, shared with the neighbouring Mursi people;
The land of the Suri, in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, is being stolen by the Ethiopian government to be rented to foreign companies; They are then rented out for 1 euro per hectare and per year;
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Six women climbers start their ascent of the Shard, London's tallest building, for the Save the Arctic campaign. They chose to climb the Shard because it towers over Shell’s three London offices. Shell is leading the oil companies’ drive into the Arctic. Greenpeace is campaigning for the area around the North Pole to be made a global sanctuary, off-limits to industrialization.
Jerash in Jordan lies on a plain surrounded by hilly wooded areas and fertile basinsis, it is famous for the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River, It is considered one of the most important and best preserved Roman cities in the Near East, it was a city of the Decapolis
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Beautiful painting on the ceiling inside the Qajar Kushak, in Fin Garden, situated in Kashan, Isfahan province of Iran.
Fin Garden is a historical Persian garden, and part of UNESCO World Heritage Site. It contains Kashan's Fin Bath, where Amir Kabir, the Qajarid chancellor, was murdered by an assassin sent by King Nasereddin Shah in 1852. Completed in 1590, the Fin Garden is the oldest extant garden in Iran.
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Night view of Agha Bozorg Mosque, situated in Kashan, Isfahan province of Iran. It was built in the late 18th century by master-mi'mar Ustad Haj Sa'ban-ali.
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A male soccer player holding a ball. The stadium is dark behind him. It's smoke around him. Only the lights of the stadium shine brightly, creating a halo effect around the bulbs.
Interior view of Saint Gevork Monastery, situated in the village of Mughni, in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.
Founded in the 13th century, Saint Gevork Monastery was built to house some of the remains of Saint George who was known as the "Slayer of Dragons"..
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St Joseph's Cathedral in Asmara, Eritrea, is a large Romanesque style cathedral in the centre of the city that was built when Eritrea was an Italian colony, the building took 6 years to construct and was consecrated in 1922, its Gothic tower looks like the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster; on the cathedral site, there is also a primary school, a monastery, and a convent; Christianity is the religion of about 50 percent of the population of Eritrea, around 44 percent of citizens belong to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, which used to belong to the formerly Coptic Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; the Eritrean Catholic Church has dioceses of Asmara, Keren and Barentu,there are approximately 150,000 Catholics in Eritrea
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View of the magnificient frescos depicting Heaven, Earth, and Hell, inside the main prayer hall of Vank Cathedral (Holy Savior Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters), in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
The cathedral was established in 1606, dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. Pendentives throughout the church are painted with a distinctly Armenian motif of a cherub's head surrounded by folded wings. The ceiling above the entrance is painted with delicate floral motifs in the style of Persian miniature. Two sections, or bands, of murals run around the interior walls: the top section depicts events from the life of Jesus, while the bottom section depicts tortures inflicted upon Armenian martyrs by the Ottoman Empire.
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The eye-catching bulbous Shirazi dome of Ali Ibn Hamzeh Holy Shrine, a Shia Muslim mosque, funerary monument & pilgrimage site, located in Shiraz, Fars province of Iran.
Built in the 19th century over the tomb of Emir Ali, a nephew of Shah Cheragh who also died here while en route to Khorasan to help Imam Reza, this shrine is the latest of several earlier incarnations destroyed by earthquakes.
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PREDJAMA, SLOVENIA - SEPTEMBER 16: Predjama Castle is a Renaissance castle built within a cave mouth in southwestern Slovenia. It is located approximately 11 kilometres from Postojna. © 2010 K Alexander
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