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St. Michael's Church is one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches and the most famous church in the city. St. Michaelis is a landmark of the city and it is considered to be one of the finest Hanseatic Protestant baroque churches.
Saint Michael's is located on the Michaelkirchplatz in Engelbecken, which was part of the old Luisenstadt Canal, along which the Berlin Wall ran until German reunification. After the canal's closure in 1926, the space was converted into a park, which offered an uninterrupted view of St Michael's from the south. This view was opened up after the fall of the Berlin Wall, such that the church is once more seen in the way it was originally conceived. Michaelkirchstraße runs from Michaelkirchplatz to the River Spree, crossing Köpenicker Road (de), and has existed since the sixteenth century.
St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, Canada, and one of the oldest churches in Toronto. St. Michael's was designed by William Thomas, designer of eight other churches in the city, and was primarily financed by Irish immigrants who resided in the area. John Cochrane and Brothers undertook the work on the stone and stucco ornamentation of the interior. It is a prime example of the English Gothic Revival style of architecture.
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D22252. St. Michael's Mount off the south coast of Cornwall at Marazion.
When the tide goes out it is linked to the mainland by an artificial causeway, but when the tide comes in a fleet of ferry boats carry visitors and residents across the water.
See here for more details: www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/
Monday, 12th August, 2019. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2019.
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Did you know that Cornwall has the counterpart of the Mont St Michel in Cornwall?
Historically, St Michael's Mount was a Cornish counterpart of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France (with which it shares the same tidal island characteristics and the same conical shape, in spite of being much smaller), when it was given to the Benedictine religious order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.
The causeway between the mount and Marazion was improved in 1879 by raising it by one foot (30 cm) with sand and stones from the surrounding area. When the tide comes in, you have to access or leave the Mount by boat (to come!).
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Inside the Rock of Gibraltar there are miles of tunnels which have been made for military purposes (and some still are in use). But there is more to the interior of "The Rock"...
This is part of St Michael's Cave, a natural cavern in the Limestone which is sometimes used for concerts etc. The acoustics must be amazing.
Some performances have been seen on TV and examples are on YouTube.
One of the new viewpoints I found this year to photograph this jewel of West Cornwall.
The rocks in the foreground are part of a formation called 'Little London'. They are located to the east side of Marazion and provide a good lead-in to St Michael's Mount.
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St. Michael's Church is one of the oldest churches in Vienna, and one of its few remaining Romanesque buildings. It is dedicated to the Archangel Michael.
St. Michael's used to be the parish church of the Imperial Court.
The remains of a 14th century church built on top of Glastonbury Tor situated in the Somerset Levels, UK. The photo was taken from the Somerset Rural Life museum.
St Michael's Anglican Church in the upmarket Durban suburb of Umhlanga Rocks. St Michael the Archangel, patron of seafarers is an appropriate dedication in this beachside district.
I am trying to find more information about the history of the building but I seem to remember from my visit being told it was built in the 1970s.
Very definitely one of the scenic jewels in the crown of the West Penwith area of Cornwall. St Michael's Mount in Marazion is an island at high tide, but linked to the mainland via a causeway at low tide.
Church of St Michael - Nave, south window, with collection of presumably Continental stained glass panels : detail - Adam and Eve
St Michael's Mount is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom managed by the National Trust. The castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since approximately 1650. The earliest buildings on the summit date to the 12th century, the harbour is 15th century and the village and summit buildings were rebuilt from 1860 to 1900, giving the island its current form.
D22256. St. Michael's Mount off the south coast of Cornwall at Marazion. When the tide goes out it is linked to the mainland by an artificial causeway, but when the tide comes in a fleet of ferry boats carry visitors and residents across the water.
See here for more details: www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/
Monday, 12th August, 2019. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2019.
From my first visit to Kyiv in 2016, not often I like cities, but this one is special. Long may it stay so.
A shot taken with my Nikon D850 and edited on the iPad while in the Ukraine. Stunning architecture in the Ukraine.
"Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (Михайлівський Золотоверхий монастир; Mykhailivskyi Zolotoverkhyi manastyr).(Photos: Saint Michael's Monastery before demolition; restored Saint Michael's Monastery.) An Orthodox men's monastery in Kyiv. Little is known about its early history. In the 1050s Prince Iziaslav Yaroslavych built Saint Demetrius's Monastery and Church in the old upper city of Kyiv, near Saint Sophia Cathedral. In 1108–13 his son, Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych, built a church at the monastery dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. The monastery probably came under the control of the Kyivan Cave Monastery ca 1128; it was mostly destroyed during the Tatar invasion of 1240 and ceased to exist.
Written records confirm that the monastery was reopened by 1496. Soon afterward it began to be known as Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, its name being taken from the church built by Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych (although historians are not certain which church survived the Tatar invasion, Saint Demetrius's or Saint Michael's). Restored and enlarged over the 16th century, it gradually became one of the most popular and wealthy monasteries in Ukraine. In 1620 Yov Boretsky made it the residence of the renewed Orthodox metropolitan of Kyiv, and in 1633 Isaia Kopynsky was named supervisor (both men were buried there). It enjoyed the patronage of hetmans and other benefactors and acquired many valuable artifacts (including the relics of Saint Barbara, brought to Kyiv from Byzantium in the 11th century and kept in a silver sepulcher donated by Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and an iconostasis funded by Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky). Although most of the monastery's properties were secularized in the late 18th century, in the 19th and 20th centuries as many as 240 monks have lived there, and after 1800 it served as the residence of the bishop of Chernihiv (who was also vicar of Kyiv). A precentor's school was located there, and many prominent composers (eg, Kyrylo Stetsenko and Yakiv Yatsynevych) studied or taught at the school.
The main church of the monastery (built in either 1654–7 or 1108–13) was an important architectural and cultural monument. Originally it had three naves and three apses on the eastern side and was topped by a single large gilded cupola. It was rebuilt in a baroque style and expanded with a new façade and six additional cupolas in the 18th century. The most striking elements of the interior were the 12th–century frescoes (such as the Annunciation fresco) and mosaics (such as the Angel mosaic), probably done by Kyivan artisans (including perhaps Master Olimpii). Although many of these were destroyed in the 13th to 16th century, some—notably the mosaics of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonika, the Eucharist, and Archdeacon Stephen—survived and were partially restored in the late 19th century. Several other frescoes were restored by Adrian Prakhov. Other buildings in the monastery complex included a bell tower and three residences and refectories. Several Kyivan princes were buried in the church, including Sviatopolk II Iziaslav.
After the Soviet seizure of power the monastery was closed, and in 1936, during the Stalinist antireligious campaign, the main church was demolished by the authorities. (Photo: Ruins of Saint Michael's Church, 1936.) Before the church's demolition, some of its art works were removed and deposited in the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow or stored at the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The items at the cathedral were seized by the Nazis during the Second World War and taken to Germany. There they fell into American hands at the end of the war and were ‘returned’ to Moscow. The reconstruction of the Saint Michael’s Church began on 24 May 1997. It was officially opened on 30 May 1999 (photo: restored Saint Michael's Church), but the interior decorations, mosaics, and frescoes were not completed until 2000. Subsequently (2001 and 2004), 18 of 29 art pieces in Moscow from the original church were returned after years of discussion. The monastery was officially ceded to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate."
SOURCE: www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%...
D22326. A stained glass window in the Priory Church at the castle on St. Michael's Mount, an island off the south coast of Cornwall; when the tide goes out it is linked to the mainland by an artificial causeway, but when the tide comes in a fleet of small boats ferry visitors and residents back and forth across the water.
See here for more details: www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/
Monday, 12th August, 2019. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2019.
Online sources describe this little gazebo as the Monastery Chapel of St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. It sits in the monastery's grounds, just north of the main monastery church. I can find no further information about it.
St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery (Ukrainian: Михайлівський золотоверхий монастир, Mykhaylivs’kyi zolotoverkhyi monastyr) is a functioning monastery in the city centre of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery is located on the right bank of the Dnieper River on the edge of a bluff northeast of the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The site is located in the historic administrative Uppertown and overlooks the city’s historical commercial and merchant quarter, the Podil neighbourhood.
Originally built in the Middle Ages by Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych (regnat 1050-1113), the monastery comprises the Cathedral itself, the Refectory of St. John the Divine, built in 1713, the Economic Gates, constructed in 1760 and the monastery’s bell tower, which was added c. 1716–1719. The exterior of the structure was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style in the 18th century while the interior remained in its original Byzantine style. The original cathedral was demolished by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, but was reconstructed and opened in 1999 following Ukrainian independence in 1991.
During the Mongol invasion in 1240, the monastery is believed to have been seriously damaged. The Mongols damaged the cathedral and removed its gold-plated domes. The cloister subsequently fell into disrepair and there is no documentation of it for the following two and a half centuries. By 1496, the monastery had been revived and its name was changed from St. Demetrius’ Monastery to St. Michael’s. In 1620, Iov Boretsky made it the residence of the renewed Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev, and in 1633, Isaya Kopynsky was named a supervisor of the monastery.
During the first half of the 1930s, various Soviet publications questioned the known historical facts regarding the age of the Cathedral. The publications stressed that the medieval building had undergone major reconstructions and that little of the original Byzantine-style cathedral was preserved. This wave of questioning led to the demolition of the monastery and its replacement with a new administrative centre for the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (previously located in the city of Kharkiv). Before its demolition (8 June – 9 July 1934), the structure was carefully studied by T.M. Movchanivskyi and K. Honcharev from the recently purged and re-organized Institute of Material Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. On the basis of their survey, the cathedral was declared to belong primarily to the Ukrainian Baroque style, rather than to the twelfth century as was previously thought, and thus did not merit preservation due to its lack of historical and artistic value. This conclusion backed up the Soviet authorities' plans to demolish the entire monastery. Local historians, archaeologists, and architects agreed to the monastery's demolition, although reluctantly. Only one professor, Mykola Makarenko, refused to sign the demolition act; he later died in a Soviet prison.
In August 1963, the preserved refectory of the demolished monastery without its Baroque cupola was designated a monument of architecture of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1973, the Kiev City Council established several "archaeological preservation zones" within the city; these included the territory surrounding the monastery.
After Ukraine regained independence in 1991, the demolition of the monastery was deemed a crime and voices started to be heard calling for the monastery's full-scale reconstruction as an important part of the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people. These plans were approved and carried out in 1997–1998, whereupon the cathedral and belltower were transferred to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate. Yuriy Ivakin, the chief archaeologist for the site, said that more than 260 valuable ancient artifacts were recovered during excavations of the site before reconstruction. In addition, a portion of the ancient cathedral, still intact, was uncovered; this today makes up a part of the current cathedral's crypt.
The newly rebuilt St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral was officially opened on 30 May 1999. However, interior decorations, mosaics, and frescoes were not completed until 28 May 2000. The side chapels were consecrated to SS. Barbara and Catherine in 2001. During the following four years, 18 out of 29 mosaics and other objets d'art from the original cathedral were returned from Moscow after years of tedious discussion between Ukrainian and Russian authorities. The remaining frescoes were finally transferred from St Petersburg’s Hermitage in 2009 but placed in a separate preserve.
The St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery became the headquarters of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine after the church's creation on 15 December 2018. St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is used as the headquarters of the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine. The rector of the monastery has the rank of diocesan bishop.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.