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Uspenski Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, and main cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Finland, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary). Its name comes from the Old Church Slavonic word uspenie, which denotes the Dormition. Designed by the Russian architect Aleksey Gornostayev (1808–1862). The cathedral was built after his death in 1862–1868.
The crypt chapel of the cathedral is named after the holy Alexander Hotovitzky, who served as vicar of the Orthodox parish of Helsinki 1914–1917.
The Cathedral is set upon a hillside on the Katajanokka peninsula overlooking the city. On the back of the cathedral, there is a plaque commemorating Russian Emperor Alexander II, who was the sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Finland during the cathedral's construction. Main cathedral of the Finnish Orthodox Church in the diocese of Helsinki, Uspenski Cathedral is claimed to be the largest orthodox church in Western Europe.
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I like to look out for the first signs of Spring. Here is the coltsfoot blooming near the old building :)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is a plant in the groundsel tribe in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Europe and parts of western and central Asia. It is also a common plant in North America and South America where it has been introduced. The flowers, start to bloom in early Spring, before the leaves appear. The leaves of coltsfoot appear after the flowers have set seed and wither and die in the early summer. The plant is often found in waste and disturbed places and along roadsides and paths. In some areas it is considered an invasive species. Coltsfoot leaves have been used in the traditional medicine internally (as tea or syrup) or externally (directly applied) for treatment of disorders of the respiratory tract, skin, locomotor system, viral infections, flu, colds, fever, rheumatism and gout.
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Lubię wypatrywać pierwszych oznak wiosny w mieście. Niedawno znalazłam kwitnący podbiał :)
Podbiał pospolity (Tussilago farfara) – gatunek rośliny z rodziny astrowatych (Asteraceae Dum.). Rodzime obszary jego występowania obejmują Europę, dużą część Azji oraz Algierię i Maroko. W Polsce jest pospolity. Kwiatostany pokazują się, zanim rozwiną się liście. Kwitnie od marca do maja. Liście pojawiają się pod koniec kwitnienia. Preferuje gleby gliniaste, miejsca kamieniste, piarżyska, żwirowiska nadrzeczne, osuwiska, skarpy przydrożne, urwiste brzegi rzek i potoków, hałdy węglowe i pogorzeliska. W uprawach rolnych uznawany za chwast. Jest rośliną leczniczą. W zielarstwie wykorzystuje się liście oraz kwiaty podbiału w stanach zapalnych oraz nieżytach dróg oddechowych, jamy ustnej i krtani. Odwar z podbiału stosuje się też zewnętrznie do okładów na skórę przy stłuczeniach, zaczerwienieniu i siniakach.
In June we visited friends, who live in Łódź and we went for a walk around the city with them. On the photo you can see the place called Monopolis :)
Former Vodka Monopoly Plant, which was established at the end of the 19th century, transformed now into an office, entertainment and cultural center called Monopolis. Today, Monopolis combines various areas of activity in an unusual way. Guests will easily find restaurants with Italian, Japanese or Mediterranean cuisine or cafes with freshly baked bread, best quality desserts and aromatic coffee. For theater and art lovers, Monopolis offers to admire unique paintings, sculptures, photographs or posters.
Łódź is the third largest city in Poland and a former industrial centre. Located in the central part of the country, it is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship. Łódź was once a small settlement that first appeared in 14th-century records. It was granted town rights in 1423 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. The Second Industrial Revolution brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population owing to the inflow of migrants, notably Germans and Jews. Following the end of the Second World War, Łódź informally and temporarily took over the functions of Poland's capital, and most of the government and country administration resided in the city prior to Warsaw's reconstruction. On 8 March 1948, the National Film School was opened, later becoming Poland's primary academy of drama and cinema.
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W czerwcu wybraliśmy sieęz wizytą do znajomych mieszkających w Łodzi i razem z nimi zwiedzaliśmy miasto. Na zdjęciu - Monopolis :)
Byłe Zakłady Monopolu Wódczanego, które powstały pod koniec XIX wieku, przekształcone obecnie na centrum biurowo-rozrywkowo-kulturalne nazwane Monopolis. Obecnie Monopolis w niezwykły sposób łączy różne obszary działania. Goście z łatwością znajdą restauracje z kuchnią włoską, japońską czy śródziemnomorską albo kawiarnie ze świeżo wypiekanym pieczywem, najlepszą jakością deserami i aromatyczną kawą. A dla miłośników teatru i sztuki Monopolis proponuje podziwiać unikatowe obrazy, rzeźby, fotografie czy plakaty.
Łódź – trzecie miasto w Polsce pod względem liczby ludności (po Warszawie i Krakowie). Miejscowość ma metrykę średniowieczną. Łódź początkowo była małą wsią leżącą w granicach historycznej ziemi łęczyckiej, którą władali książęta łęczyccy. Do końca XVII w. Łódź rozwijała się jako małe miasteczko rolnicze, będące własnością biskupstwa włocławskiego. W 1820 rząd Królestwa Polskiego włączył Łódź do grona osad przemysłowych w kalisko-mazowieckim okręgu przemysłowym i przeznaczył jej rolę ośrodka tkackiego i sukienniczego. Industrializacja oparta była przede wszystkim na napływających do miasta rzemieślnikach różnych specjalności włókienniczych, którzy zachęcani byli licznymi przywilejami. Gwałtowny rozwój Łodzi przeobraził ją w ciągu kilkudziesięciu lat z małej mieściny w przemysłową metropolię liczącą 500 tys. mieszkańców w 1914 r. W 1945 powstała w Łodzi Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych, która wkrótce stała się największym ośrodkiem produkcji filmowej w Polsce.
The old seed and garden supply, Carthage, Missouri. Always something intersting on the back streets of a town.
17C corn mill on the River Stour at Sturminster Newton. Still stone grinding bread flour using water power to this day.
I love these half-timber farmhouses with large entrance doors and cute lattice windows. Here, I found the ensemble with outhouse, fence and pebbled drive an enchanting view.
taken at Yokohama Minato Mirai...
meet my classmate in High School Mr. Jun,
After almost 33 years , we meet again and never ending chatty, Thank you for your time, see you next time ,Jun,
Thank you for the visit ,comments and faves, Always greatly appreciated.. Arlene Kato.
An early morning picture of 3 Snowhill which dominates the Cityscape. I cropped into the picture to highlight the building via the framing from the redbrick buildings either side
View on the buildings of the old flax factory from another old 19-th century building :)
Smile on Saturday - theme: "Room with a View" :)
When I first saw this, I thought that the vine was the intruder, but after thinking about it, maybe man is. The earth doesn't need us, but we need the earth, it was here before and will likely be here after us.
Dieses schöne alte Bank-Gebäude mit der güldenen Kuppel über dem Uhrturm habe ich schon unzählige Male fotografiert, aber in Kombination mit dem blauen Himmel ist es immer wieder unwiderstehlich...
Quer über die Straße, keine 300m entfernt, steht das Weiße Haus.
The National Saving And Trust Company, presently occupied by Sun Trust Bank is a historic bank building located at the corner of New York Avenue and 15th Street, NW in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was designed by architect James H. Windrim and built in 1888. The Queen Anne Style building is constructed in red brick, and elaborately detailed with copper and terracotta (Wiki)
View of traditional entrance to St Pancras Station. Old lanterns light the way to a waiting Eurostar train.
It is a long time since this lovely dark redbrick building on Donegall Street in Belfast has been a school—it's currently the Roman Catholic chaplaincy for the new campus of the University of Ulster next door—but the signs are still up.
Remarkably, this is Belfast's last surviving neo-Gothic building. It was built in 1828 to the designs of the Newry architect, Timothy Hevey, and was the first Catholic school to be built in Belfast. The land was donated by the 2nd Marquess of Donegall, and had been the town dump until the school was built.
The go-ahead boomtown that was Victorian Belfast did not treasure the buildings that had come before, so this is, remarkably, one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city, full stop.
To its left is the enormous Gothic mass of St Patrick's Church, completed in 1877.
Thanks to the "Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland" blog for much of the information in this description.
The redbrick building barely visible, beyond and beneath, the sign, is the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin.
Miracle required - head for Heaven!
WILMINGTON NC: THE WATERFRONT: Having roamed the waterfront for a couple of hours I came upon this fellow with his easel, canvas, brushes, paints, and Honda Element.
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Built of red brick in 1878, the Wandiligong Public Library is a simple building that may be found along Morses Creek Road in the pretty Alpine town of Wandiligong.
Simple it may be, with minimal ornamentation and elegant lines, but this building shows how important and populated Wandiligong was during the Victorian Gold Rush. Not every town had a public library, which makes this survivor a significant piece of history.
Today the Wandiligong Public Library is used as a small local art gallery.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
The Coates Hotel was designed by Van Brunt & Howe in 1891.
The Coates Hotel is on the National Register #72000715. And it is also in the Wholesale District (also known as the Garment District) Historic District, National Register #79001375.
Lunchtime stroll around the neighborhood. I saw this gentleman on his phone this way. Not wanting to creep on him, I introduced myself, explained myself, and asked if I could take a couple of pictures of his back. Bemused, he asked what he needed to do. "Nothing. Just do what you're doing." He was willing to do that.
Standing silently at the heart of the courtyard, the brick tower watches over time, weather, and the quiet lives within.
"It's sad. It's sad. There's no life in them anymore. But, you know if those walls could talk, they'd tell an awful lot of stories."
Click the link below and have a watch of this CBC video to catch a quick glimpse of the Bear Den...
This Alberta ghost town has no services, but still has guests
As we saw in the previous photograph, the designer of this fine English style school house was Everard James Blackburn (1803-1854). Blackburn went on to survey the new city of Melbourne, and even has a suburb there named after him. But Blackburn had not come voluntarily to Van Diemen's Land.
He was transported in 1833 for forging a cheque of 600 pounds (a massive amount at the time) on the Bank of England in the name of his employers. Interestingly enough, Australia's greatest colonial architect, Francis Greenway (1777-1837) was also transported to Old Sydney Town for the same crime. So England's shame became Australia's gain!
This colour photograph shows off the lovely red brickwork. You must enlarge this one. Look at that wonderful name plate above the door.
The building is still run by St Luke's Anglican Church as an "Op Shop". A charity shop to raise funds for community projects.
The Malbork convent kitchen - in the first interior with a huge hood oyer the hearth, food was once prepared, and then transported by lift to the refectory on the second floor. Now, both this interior and the next room, which was probably a bakery in the old days, have been turned into an old convent kitchen equipped with pots and plates, and all sort of utensils from different historical periods. Dishes served on the tables of medieval Malbork reflected the power and prosperity of the Teutonic Knights' state. People ate there pork, beef, poultry, and game prepared in different styles. Fish was rated highly. A supplement of the main dishes was bread, barley, and rice. Among dairy products, mainly cheeses were consumed. Cream and milk played a minor role. The latter was replaced by an extract from almonds. Beers and meads were the basic drinks. It is known, that 19 brands of wine were brought to Malbork; most of them from the Rhine region, but there were also Hungarian, Greek, and Italian wines. The monks drank no less than 12 kinds of beer.
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, the largest Gothic castle complex in the world, is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork on the river Nogat in Poland. It was originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights, a German Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1457, during the Thirteen Years’ War, it was sold by the Bohemian mercenaries to King Casimir IV of Poland in lieu of indemnities and it since served as one of the several Polish royal residences and the seat of Polish offices and institutions, interrupted by several years of Swedish occupation, and fulfilling this function until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. From then on the castle was under German rule for over 170 years until 1945. The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress and, on its completion in 1406, was the world's largest brick castle. UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December 1997.
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Kuchnia konwentu malborskiego - w pierwszym wnętrzu z wielkim okapem nakrywającym palenisko przygotowywano kiedyś potrawy, transportowane windą przy południowej ścianie na drugie piętro, do refektarza. Dziś, zarówno w tym, jak i w sąsiednim wnętrzu będącym najprawdopodobniej piekarnią, zaaranżowano dawną kuchnię klasztorną w oparciu o dostępne obiekty muzealne. Wnętrze zaaranżowano w ten sposób, by można było odnieść wrażenie, iż kucharz właśnie był odszedł od paleniska i garnków, by udać się do piwnicy po przyprawy i zioła. Zakonny charakter kuchni podkreśla zmieniająca się każdego dnia scenografia, zależna od kalendarza krzyżackiego regulującego porządek świąt i uroczystości, dni postnych, jak również okresów zwykłych. W zamku jadano wieprzowinę, wołowinę, drób, dziczyznę. Istotną rolę odgrywały ryby. Uzupełnieniem dań głównych było pieczywo, kasze i ryż. Z nabiału najwięcej spożywano jaj i serów. Mniejszą rolę odgrywała śmietana i mleko, te ostatnie najczęściej zastępował wyciąg z migdałów. Do podstawowych napojów należały piwa i miody. Wiadomo, że sprowadzano do Malborka 19 gatunków win, najwięcej reńskiego, ale było także węgierskie, greckie i włoskie. Bracia pijali nie mniej niż 12 gatunków piwa.
Zamek w Malborku – jeden z największych zamków na świecie, położony na prawym brzegu Nogatu, wzniesiony w kilku etapach od 1280 do poł. XV w. przez zakon krzyżacki. Początkowo konwentualna siedziba komtura, od 1309 po przeniesieniu przez Siegfrieda von Feuchtwangena stolicy zakonu do Malborka, siedziba wielkich mistrzów zakonu krzyżackiego i władz Prus Zakonnych do 1457, w latach 1457–1772 rezydencja królów Polski, od 1466 siedziba władz Prus Królewskich, od 1568 siedziba Komisji Morskiej, w 1772 zajęty przez administrację Królestwa Prus i zdewastowany w latach 1773–1804; rekonstruowany w latach 1817–1842 i 1882–1944, zniszczony w 1945, ponownie rekonstruowany od 1947; w 1949 wpisany do rejestru zabytków, w 1994 uznany za pomnik historii, w 1997 wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO jako jeden z najznakomitszych przykładów średniowiecznej architektury obronno-rezydencyjnej w Europie Środkowej. Od 1961 zamek jest siedzibą Muzeum Zamkowego w Malborku.