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A Route 28 tram descends in the rain from Alfama past the Church of Santo António, with Lisbon's imposing Cathedral dominating the background. There seems to be one church provided for every few houses.
Portugal, 3 April 2016
Religious festivity in the Indio village of Cairoma, Bolivia.
Ca. 1930s, unidentified german amateur photographer.
Scarborough is a seaside town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the North Sea coastline. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town lies between 10 and 230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, from the harbour rising steeply north and west towards limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire Coast and largest seaside town in North Yorkshire. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. Residents of the town are known as Scarborians.
The town is claimed to have been founded around 966 AD as Skarðaborg by Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider. There is no archaeological evidence to support this claim, which was made during the 1960s as part of a pageant of Scarborough events. The claim is based on a fragment of an Icelandic Saga. In the 4th century, there was briefly a Roman signal station on Scarborough headland, and there is evidence of earlier settlements, during the Stone Age and Bronze Age. Any settlement between the fifth and ninth centuries would have been burned to the ground by a band of Vikings under Tostig Godwinson (a rival of Thorgils Skarthi), Lord of Falsgrave, or Harald III of Norway. These periodic episodes of destruction and massacre means that very little evidence of settlement during this period remained to be recorded in the Domesday survey of 1085. (The original inland village of Falsgrave was Anglo-Saxon rather than Viking.)
A Roman signal station was built on a cliff-top location overlooking the North Sea. It was one of a chain of signal stations, built to warn of sea-raiders. Coins found at the site show that it was occupied from c. AD 370 until the early fifth century.
In 2021 an excavation at a housing development in Eastfield, Scarborough, revealed a Roman luxury villa, religious sanctuary, or combination of both. The building layout is unique in Britain and extends over an area of about the size of two tennis courts. It included a bathhouse and a cylindrical tower with rooms radiating from it. The buildings were “designed by the highest-quality architects in northern Europe in the era and constructed by the finest craftsmen.” Historic England described the finds as “one of the most important Roman discoveries in the past decade.” There are plans to revise the housing development layout, recover the remains and incorporate them in a public green area. Historic England is to recommend the remains be protected as a scheduled monument.
Scarborough recovered under King Henry II, who built an Angevin stone castle on the headland and granted the town charters in 1155 and 1163, permitting a market on the sands and establishing rule by burgesses.
Edward II granted Scarborough Castle to his favourite, Piers Gaveston. The castle was subsequently besieged by forces led by the barons Percy, Warenne, Clifford and Pembroke. Gaveston was captured and taken to Oxford and thence to Warwick Castle for execution.
In 1318, the town was burnt by the Scots, under Sir James Douglas following the Capture of Berwick upon Tweed.
In the Middle Ages, Scarborough Fair, permitted in a royal charter of 1253, held a six-week trading festival attracting merchants from all over Europe. It ran from Assumption Day, 15 August, until Michaelmas Day, 29 September. The fair continued to be held for 500 years, from the 13th to the 18th century, and is commemorated in the song Scarborough Fair:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
—parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...
Scarborough and its castle changed hands seven times between Royalists and Parliamentarians during the English Civil War of the 1640s, enduring two lengthy and violent sieges. Following the civil war, much of the town lay in ruins.
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough Spa, and Dr Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town. Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not reported on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London, such as the bookseller Andrew Millar and his family. Their son Andrew junior died there in 1750.
The coming of the Scarborough–York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims a record for the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880s until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
During the First World War, the town was bombarded by German warships of the High Seas Fleet, an act which shocked the British (see Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby). Scarborough Pier Lighthouse, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack. A U-boat assault on the town, on 25 September 1916 saw three people killed and a further five injured. Eleven of Scarborough's trawler fleet were sunk at sea in another U-boat attack, on 4 September 1917.
In 1929, the steam drifter Ascendent caught a 560 lb (250 kg) tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna) and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction. Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough effectively started in 1930 when Lorenzo "Lawrie" Mitchell–Henry, landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 lb (250 kg). A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933 and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name. Scarborough became a resort for high society. A women's world tuna challenge cup was held for many years.
Colonel (and, later, Sir) Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 lb (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 lb (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey. The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 lb (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Laurie Mitchell-Henry.
On 5 June 1993, Scarborough made international headlines when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea. Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
Scarborough has been affiliated with a number of Royal Navy vessels, including HMS Apollo, HMS Fearless and HMS Duncan.
The town has an Anglican church, St Martin-on-the-Hill, built in 1862–63 as the parish church of South Cliff. It contains works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. A young Malton architect, John Gibson, designed the Crown Spa Hotel, Scarborough's first purpose-built hotel. Notable Georgian structures include the Rotunda Museum, Cliff Bridge and Scarborough Pier Lighthouse. Victorian buildings include the Classical Public Library and Market Hall, the Town Hall, Scarborough Spa, the Art Gallery, the South Cliff Methodist Church, and Scarborough railway station. The architecture of Scarborough generally consists of small, low, orange pantile-roofed buildings in the historic old town, and larger Classical and late Victorian buildings reflecting the time during the 19th century as it expanded away from its historic centre into a coastal spa resort.
A notable landmark in the town is the Grand Hotel on St Nicholas Cliff. Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick of Hull, it was completed in 1867; at the time of its opening, it was the largest hotel and the largest brick structure in Europe. It uses local yellow brickwork with red detailing and is based around a theme of time: four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors the months, 52 chimneys the weeks and the original 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A blue plaque outside the hotel marks where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of St Mary's Church by the castle.
An amount of 20th century architecture exists within the main shopping district and in the form of surrounding suburbs. Buildings from this century include the Futurist Theatre (1914), Stephen Joseph Theatre, Brunswick Shopping Centre (1990), and GCHQ Scarborough, a satellite station on the outskirts of the town.
conveniently close to the trash can. has anyone ever been saved by one? do anyone but pigeons pay any attention to them?
As I see it, Page has a big problem with diversity of beliefs.
let's create one religion for each person on earth!
Covenant Community Church on the corner of Baltimore Ave / SEPTA trolley route 34 and 42nd Street in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
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Preparation,Gajan Festival,West Bengal,India.
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Gajan a Shaivite folk festival, held on CHAITRA SANGKRANTI (the last day of Chaitra..according to eng calendar ,its in middle of april) and on full moon nights up to the full moon of Asadh. The festival is associated with various gods. There may thus be SHIVA's Gajan, the Gajan of DHARMA THAKUR, the Gajan of Nil etc. But the main object of this festival is to celebrate the marriage of the sun and the earth. The reason for this festival is perhaps to appease the sun and pray for rain during the hot, dry month of Chaitra.
The festival is arranged on the premises of Shiva temples. Those who take part in the festival after making vows are called sannyasi or bhaktya. They take sacrificial food and wear uturi (wrappers). Each one holds a staff. They try to satisfy the god through different acts of penance, such as piercing their tongues with nails, jumping upon thorns, walking on burning charcoal, etc. CHADAK PUJA is performed on the occasion of the Gajan festival. During this festival, processions are brought out from the premises of the temple of Shiva and taken to other villages. A pair of processionists take the roles of Shiva and Gauri and render dances. Other bhaktyas take the roles of Nandi, Bhrngi, ghosts and spirits, monsters and demons and dance along with Shiva and Gauri. During this time different verses are recited narrating the story of how Shiva's sleep was disturbed and going on to his marriage, his agricultural activities etc. This festival usually lasts for three days. During the gajan on Chaitra Samkranti, Kali dances are also performed in some places describing how the goddess slaughtered the monster Asura.
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Sé de Evora, apostles
The ogival main portal is a masterpiece of Portuguese Gothic sculpture. The marble columns are occupied by huge statues of the Apostles executed in the 1330s, perhaps by sculptors Master Pero (Mestre Pero) and Telo Garcia. It is the best of its kind in Portugal. Such free-standing Gothic sculptures are rather rare in Portugal. They are usually associated with memorial graves.
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (Russian: Собор Покрова пресвятой Богородицы, что на Рву) or Pokrovsky Cathedral (Russian: Покровский собор) - both are official names used by the Russian Orthodox Church - also known as the Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed but popularly as Saint Basil's Cathedral (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного), is a Russian Orthodox church erected on Red Square in Moscow in 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible. It commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.
St. Basil's marks the geometric center of Moscow. It has been the hub of the city's growth since the 14th centuryand was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.
The original building, known as "Trinity Church" and later "Trinity Cathedral", contained eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of Intercession; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local saint Vasily (Basil). In the 16th and 17th centuries the church, perceived as the earthly symbol of the Heavenly City, as happens to all churches in Byzantine Christianity, was popularly known as the "Jerusalem" and served as an allegory of the Jerusalem Temple in the annual Palm Sunday parade attended by the Patriarch of Moscow and the tsar.
The building's design, shaped as a flame of a bonfire rising into the sky, has no analogues in Russian architecture: "It is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to fifteenth century ... a strangeness that astonishes by its unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold details of its design." The cathedral foreshadowed the climax of Russian national architecture in the 17th century.
As part of the program of state atheism, the church was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union's anti-theist campaigns and has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928. It was completely and forcefully secularized in 1929 and, as of 2011, remains a federal property of the Russian Federation. The church has been part of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. It is often mislabelled as the Kremlin owing to its location on Red Square in immediate proximity of the Kremlin.
THE UNIVERSE: WAYYYY TOO BIG FOR MERE GODS.....
To me, a well designed office building can be just as lovely as a church, and the works of man generally are impressive precisely because we made them with our hands grasping tools, rather than just kneel with our hands clasped in prayer.....
I was particularly taken with the progression in scale from grass, to church, to office tower to the moon, and yes, to the one or two stars barely seen in the night sky.
We walked on the moon once and will do so again.....next stop, the stars!
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I was walking past the intersection of Elizabeth Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne and, glancing up at the moon breaking through the clouds, rather fancied the composition old Luna made with the Melbourne Central Tower and St. Francis Catholic Church.
Beyond the church is the 211 metre tall Melbourne Central Tower, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, who was also responsible for the attached shopping centre, office tower, and railway station. The tower is coloured a distinctive black, has an angled top and has two communications masts so that it always reminds me a little of Batman's pointy eared cowl....
The view from the office suites located in the bevelled summit of the building is...impressive!
The shopping centre also contains the Coop's Shot Tower which was built on the site between 1889 and 1890 and has been preserved beneath a rather breathtaking vast glass cone shaped structure, as is recorded elsewhere in my photosets.
St Francis' Church is the oldest Catholic church in Victoria, Australia and is one of only three surviving buildings in central Melbourne from before the Gold Rush of 1851.
I am of course gloriously free of the ravages of religion, so apart from the architecture, which is admittedly fascinating, the other main thing I know about this church is that John 'Red' Kelly married Ellen Quinn there on 18th November 1850. Red and Ellen were the parents of Edward 'Ned' Kelly, Australia's famous armoured bushranger.
NUORO
The Cathedral of NUORO
1.Photo N° 1920- Religious Authority and the Judicial impending over Nuoro. Today is different. (Not so long ago the Court was side by side with the Church including in the town planning. Both a few meters away from each other, dominated, on a promontory, our town)
2.Photo N° 2815- the sanctity of the Church "visible" (sign of the times) prays and watches over the "invisible" (God's people). (The Church is a community of sinners who are in search of God's gift, that is of salvation. The light that emanates from the domes of the Cathedral of Nuoro is a sign and a presence of love for the world and not only for the people of God )
3.Photo N° 2836- The Church of the Rosary and the car of the pastor!
(also a neighbourhood chatted for its traditions such as "Santu Predu" forgives some road traffic offense to the priest that distributes all his energy through his people).
4.Photo N° 3663- “su cumbentu nobu e unu cantu de su bezzu! Oje!” (In the recall of an ancient melody)
5.PhOTO N° 3698- “S’arcu de Zeminariu e su pettorru de sa Cattedrale”. “ The arch of the seminar and the cathedral’s chest”. Four bells still stand out: “Manna”, “de Mortu”, “Leonzedda”e “Lollovedda”, played with great skill by the last real bell ringer: “Ziu Chischeddu Dente”.
A square for a poet (from Salvatore Naitza)
6.Photo N° 3744- the visual experience of Piazza Satta in one of his 7 entrances. The great artist enhances Nivola, in the '"Unexpected space" of the former Piazza Plebiscito, the asylum of Guiso Gallisai!. Where have played for generations rich and poor people of Nuoro.
7.Photo N° 3718- The poet of Sardinia between its granite to which he gave voice.
Nuoro by nigth
8.Photo N° 2257 The constellation of Orion protects Nuoro by night
9.Photo N° 5707 Nuoro, “no more a crows nest “, but a small village in transformation, guarded by its mountains and its moon.
Monte Ortobene
10.Photo N° 2172 - "the civilization that advances ... what a mess!".
NUORO
LA CATTEDRALE DI NUORO
1.Foto N° 1920- Autorità Religiosa e Giudiziaria sovrastrano Nuoro. Oggi è diverso. (Un tempo non lontano il Tribunale affiancava, anche urbanisticamente, la Chiesa. Entrambi a pochi metri di distanza l’uno dall’altra, dominavano, su un promontorio, la nostra città)
2.Foto N° 2815- la sacralità della Chiesa “visibile” (segno dei tempi) prega e vigila su quella “invisibile” ( popolo di Dio). (La Chiesa è una comunità di peccatori che sono alla ricerca del dono di Dio, cioè della salvezza. La luce che promana dalle cupole della Cattedrale di Nuoro costituisce un segno e una presenza di amore per il mondo e per il popolo non solo di Dio)
3.Foto N° 2836- La Chiesa del Rosario e l’auto del Suo Parroco!
(anche un rione chiacchierato per le sue tradizioni abigeatarie come quello di “Santu Predu” perdona qualche infrazione stradale al prete che ha profuso per il suo popolo tutte le sue energie)
4.Foto N° 3663- “su cumbentu nobu e unu cantu de su bezzu! Oje!” (Nel richiamo di un’antica melodia)
5.FOTO N° 3698- “S’arcu de Zeminariu e su pettorru de sa Cattedrale”. Spiccano ancora oggi le quattro campane: “Manna”, “de Mortu”, “Leonzedda”e “Lollovedda”, suonate con grande maestria dall’ultimo “vero campanaro”: “Ziu Chischeddu Dente”.
Una Piazza per un poeta (di Salvatore Naitza)
6.Foto N° 3744- l’esperienza visiva di Piazza Satta in uno dei suoi 7 accessi. Il grande artista Nivola valorizza, nell’”Inaspettato spazio” dell’ex piazza Plebiscito, l’asilo dei Guiso Gallisai!. Dove per generazioni hanno giocato nuoresi, ricchi e poveri.
7.Foto N° 3718- il Vate della Sardegna tra i suoi graniti a cui ha dato voce.
Nuoro by nigth
8.Foto N° 2257 La costellazione di Orione protegge Nuoro di notte
9.Foto N° 5707 Nuoro, “non più nido di corvi”, ma piccolo borgo in trasformazione, custodito dalle Sue montagne e dalla Sua luna.
Monte Ortobene
10.Foto N° 2172 “La civiltà che avanza… che scempio!”