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The giant monolithic Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, Türkiye (nee Turkey).
Built by the Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman / Byzantine Empire, the Hagia Sophia replaced the church of Church of Theodosius II which burned down in 530 - itself replacing the church of Constantius II which likewise burned in 404 AD. The Hagia Sophia was completed in 537, and remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
In the intervening centuries it would see the 11th century schism of the Orthodox and Catholic churches, the 16th century fall of the Eastern Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire (with the corresponding conversion of the cathedral into a mosque, with the addition of the miniarets, pictured), and the secular transformation into the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the 20th century - under which time the cathedral was converted into the museum it is today.
Taken with my Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
750th Palio di Asti Sunday, September 7, 2025 -
RIONE SAN SILVESTRO -
Tema storico sviluppato dai figuranti del RIONE SAN SILVESTRO: Gian Galeazzo Visconti e il Giubileo dei Due Papi: reliquie ed indulgenze.
Dopo lo Scisma d’Occidente, che ridusse i pellegrinaggi a Roma, papa Bonifacio IX incentivò la vendita delle indulgenze, concedendo l’assoluzione anche a chi pregava o visitava luoghi sacri alternativi. Gian Galeazzo Visconti ottenne una bolla papale che permetteva l’indulgenza plenaria nei suoi territori in cambio di una parte delle offerte, privilegio poi esteso ad Asti grazie a Valentina Visconti. Il testo collega infine queste pratiche storiche al Giubileo del 2025, che invita al pentimento e alla solidarietà.
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750th Palio di Asti Sunday, September 7, 2025 -
RIONE SAN SILVESTRO -
Historical theme developed by the participants of the RIONE SAN SILVESTRO: Gian Galeazzo Visconti and the Jubilee of the Two Popes: relics and indulgences.
After the Western Schism reduced pilgrimages to Rome, Pope Boniface IX promoted indulgences for profit, extending absolution to those who prayed or visited sacred places elsewhere. Gian Galeazzo Visconti obtained a papal bull allowing plenary indulgence within his territories in exchange for a share of the offerings, a privilege later extended to Asti through Valentina Visconti. The text concludes by linking these historical practices to the Holy Year 2025, which encourages repentance and solidarity.
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Je me suis baladé un peu sur la toile cet après midi. J'y ai croisé beaucoup d'incertitude et de peurs, mais aussi quelques belles lumières.
Celle de Karim Duval par exemple, un humoriste converti au "covidisme", la nouvelle religion du moment.
Extrait : "Ce qui est beau dans le covidisme, c'est qu'il n'y a pas une seule vérité. Chacun détient la sienne. Donc quelque part, la vérité est nulle part. Ce n'est plus un schisme à ce niveau là, c'est un pschisme : "Pfuit !". La vérité en spray."
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In keeping with my black and white theme (for the moment) I present a black and white version of the Palace of the Popes (Palais des Papes) in Avignon, France. A father and his young son were playing with a soccer ball in the plaza while I captured this image. Off in the distance close to the Palace you can see the small figures of people that give an indication of the size of the building.
The Palace of the Popes was occupied by seven Roman Catholic popes (actually, nine if you count the 2 "anti-popes" of the Papal Schism) during the 14th century and was considered the seat of Western Christianity before the return of the papacy to Rome. The Palace is huge and is actually two joined buildings - it was the largest Gothic building of the Middle Ages.
The various Amish (pronounced /ˈɑːmɪʃ/, AH-mish) or Amish Mennonite church fellowships are Christian religious denominations that form a very traditional subgrouping of Mennonite churches. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt modern convenience.
The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann.[2] Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.[3] These followers were originally from three main places: the German-speaking parts of Switzerland, the Alsace of France, and the Palatinate of Germany. In the early 18th century, many Amish and Mennonites emigrated to Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Today, the most traditional descendants of the Amish continue to speak Pennsylvania German, also known as Pennsylvania Dutch.
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Viewed here from Volodomyrs'kya Passage, Saint Sophia Cathedral (Ukrainian: Собор Святої Софії) in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is one of the city's best known landmarks and the joint first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex 4 kilometres to the south.
Named after Istanbul’s Haghia Sophia, its dedication is to Holy Wisdom rather than to a specific saint named Sophia. The first foundations were laid in either 1011 or 1037, with the earlier date being accepted to allow officially celebrations of its thousandth anniversary in 2011. The structure has 5 naves, 5 apses, and (quite surprisingly for Byzantine architecture) 13 cupolas. Originally the cathedral was a burial place of the Kyivan rulers although the cathedral's putative founder, Yaroslav I the Wise, is the only royal grave to survive.
After the pillaging of Kyiv by Andrei Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal in 1169, and then the Mongolian Tatars in 1240, the cathedral fell into disrepair. It was also greatly damaged in the 16th century when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was trying to unite the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. During this period the cathedral was almost ruined: its roof had decayed and many wall paintings had gone. Following the 1595-96 Union of Brest, the Cathedral of Holy Sophia belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church until it was claimed by the Moldavian Orthodox metropolitan Peter Mogila (Mohyla) in 1633. Mogila commissioned the repair work and the upper part of the building was thoroughly rebuilt, modeled by the Italian architect Octaviano Mancini in the distinct Ukrainian Baroque style, while preserving the Byzantine interior, keeping its splendour intact. The work continued under the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa until 1707. During this period the bell tower was built along with many monastery facilities, all in the Ukrainian Baroque style.
During the Soviet anti-religious campaign of the 1920s, the Soviet government planned for the cathedral's destruction and transformation into a military memorial park. The cathedral was saved from destruction primarily thanks to the efforts of many scientists and historians. Nevertheless, in 1934, Soviet authorities confiscated the structure from the Church and converted it into a museum complex.
Since the late 1980s Soviet, and later Ukrainian, politicians have promised to return the building to the Orthodox Church. Due to various schisms, and factions within the Church the return was postponed as all of Ukraine’s main Orthodox denominations as well as the Greek Catholic Church lay claim to it. Although all of the Orthodox churches have been allowed to conduct services at different dates, at other times they are denied access. A severe incident was the funeral of Patriarch Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate in 1995 when riot police were forced to prevent the burial on the premises of the museum and a bloody clash took place. After events such as those no religious body has yet been given the rights for regular services. The complex now remains a secular museum of Ukraine's Christianity, with most of its visitors being tourists.
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Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately three miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site. After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house of St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled (among them Saint Robert of Newminster) and, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to the early 6th-century Rule of St Benedict, were taken into the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York. He provided them with land in the valley of the River Skell, a tributary of the Ure. The enclosed valley had all the natural features needed for the creation of a monastery, providing shelter from the weather, stone and timber for building, and a supply of running water. After enduring a harsh winter in 1133, the monks applied to join the Cistercian order and in 1135 became the second house of that order in northern England, after Rievaulx. The monks subjected themselves to Clairvaux Abbey, in Burgundy which was under the rule of St Bernard. Under the guidance of Geoffrey of Ainai, a monk sent from Clairvaux, the group learned how to celebrate the seven Canonical Hours and were shown how to construct wooden buildings in accordance with Cistercian practice. After Henry Murdac was elected to the abbacy in 1143, the small stone church and timber claustral buildings were replaced. Within three years, an aisled nave had been added to the stone church, and the first permanent claustral buildings built in stone and roofed in tile had been completed. In 1146 an angry mob, displeased with Murdac's role in opposing the election of William FitzHerbert to the archbishopric of York, attacked the abbey and burnt down all but the church and some surrounding buildings. The community recovered swiftly from the attack and founded four daughter houses. Henry Murdac resigned the abbacy in 1147 to become the Archbishop of York and was replaced first by Maurice, Abbot of Rievaulx then, on the resignation of Maurice, by Thorald. Thorald was forced by Henry Murdac to resign after two years in office. The next abbot, Richard, held the post until his death in 1170 and restored the abbey's stability and prosperity. In 20 years as abbot, he supervised a huge building programme which involved completing repairs to the damaged church and building more accommodation for the increasing number of recruits. Only the chapter house was completed before he died and the work was ably continued by his successor, Robert of Pipewell, under whose rule the abbey gained a reputation for caring for the needy. The next abbot was William who presided over the abbey from 1180 to 1190 and he was succeeded by Ralph Haget, who had entered Fountains at the age of 30 as a novice, after pursuing a military career. During the European famine of 1194 Haget ordered the construction of shelters in the vicinity of the abbey and provided daily food rations to the poor enhancing the abbey's reputation for caring for the poor and attracting more grants from wealthy benefactors. In the first half of the 13th century Fountains increased in reputation and prosperity under the next three abbots, John of York (1203–1211), John of Hessle (1211–1220) and John of Kent (1220–1247). They were burdened with an inordinate amount of administrative duties and increasing demands for money in taxation and levies but managed to complete another massive expansion of the abbey's buildings. This included enlarging the church and building an infirmary. In the second half of the 13th century the abbey was in more straitened circumstances. It was presided over by eleven abbots, and became financially unstable largely due to forward selling its wool crop, and the abbey was criticised for its dire material and physical state when it was visited by Archbishop John Romeyn in 1294. The run of disasters that befell the community continued into the early 14th century when northern England was invaded by the Scots and there were further demands for taxes. The culmination of these misfortunes was the Black Death of 1349–1349. The loss of manpower and income due to the ravages of the plague was almost ruinous. A further complication arose as a result of the Papal Schism of 1378–1409. Fountains Abbey along with other English Cistercian houses was told to break off any contact with the mother house of Citeaux, which supported a rival pope. This resulted in the abbots forming their own chapter to rule the order in England and consequently they became increasingly involved in internecine politics. In 1410, following the death of Abbott Burley of Fountains, the community was riven by several years of turmoil over the election of his successor. Contending candidates John Ripon, Abbot of Meaux, and Roger Frank, a monk of Fountains were locked in discord until 1415 when Ripon was finally appointed and presided until his death in 1434. Under abbots John Greenwell (1442–1471), Thomas Swinton (1471–8), John Darnton (1478–95), who undertook some much needed restoration of the fabric of the abbey including notable work on the church, and Marmaduke Huby (1495–1526) Fountains regained stability and prosperity.
When Marmaduke Huby died he was succeeded by William Thirsk who was accused by the royal commissioners of immorality and inadequacy and dismissed from the abbacy and replaced by Marmaduke Bradley, a monk of the abbey who had reported Thirsk's supposed offences, testified against him and offered the authorities six hundred marks for the abbacy. In 1539 Bradley surrendered the abbey when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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Cet obélisque orne le centre de la Fontaine des Empereurs (Kaiserbrunnen) située à l'extrémité ouest de la rue Markstätte, près du port de la ville de Constance (Konstanz)¸ Land de Bade-Wurtemberg en Allemagne.
Derrière, on reconnaît le Maibaum ou Mât de Mai orné de couronnes et d'emblèmes. Il s'agit d'une tradition allemande qui consistait à planter un arbre le 1er mai pour célébrer mais qui, dans certaines villes a pris la forme d'un poteau permanent.
La Kaiserbrunnen a été conçue en 1897 par le sculpteur Hans Baur (1829-1897). Baur a créé une stèle de pierre à quatre côtés - un obélisque de grès rouge au centre d'un bassin de fontaine en granit - qui abriterait, pour des raisons de propagande dans le contexte de la renaissance de l'unique État allemand sous la direction prussienne, de chaque côté une statue de l'un des quatre empereurs allemands, chacun représentant l'une des grandes dynasties régnantes de l'histoire allemande: Heinrich III (Franks), Friedrich I 'Barbarossa' (Hohenstaufen), Maximilian I (Habsbourg) et Wilhelm I (Hohenzollern).
Malheureusement, la fontaine a perdu pendant les années quarante ses statues d’origine qui furent fondues pour l’effort de guerre. Le sculpteur Gernot Rumpf, né en 1941 et connu pour ses fontaines et autres sculptures en bronze, aux motifs palatins et bibliques très symboliques, fut chargé de créer un nouveau décor en y cachant de nombreuses allusions au passé de Constance. Le paon à plusieurs têtes, par exemple, symbolise l’Église qui était dirigée par trois papes en même temps. Cette situation insupportable pour l’homme du Moyen Âge conduisit entre autres au Concile de Constance de 1414 à 1418. De façon générale, cette fontaine est très étrange, les sculptures relèvent du style grotesque avec un symbolisme parfois difficile à comprendre comme ce petit bassin aux lapins à tresses et à queues de poisson.
Enclave allemande sur la rive suisse du lac de Constance (Bodensee), la ville Constance (Konstanz), dont la fondation fut longtemps attribuée à l'empereur romain Constance Chlore (292-306), père du futur Constantin, occupe un site agréable. De 1414 à 1418, un concile y est réuni pour tenter de rétablir l'unité de l'Église compromise par les prétentions de trois dignitaires ecclésiastiques élus au siège pontifical: Jean XXIII, Benoît XIII et Grégoire XII. En 1417, l'élection de Martin V met fin provisoirement au schisme.
Aujourd'hui, Constance est la plus grande et la plus animée des stations du lac, avec un centre médiéval parfaitement intact car grâce à sa proximité avec la Suisse, neutre, elle a évité les bombardements pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Took a stroll in the park and slithered down the slope to get as close as I could to the water cascading over the dam. I was deeply enthralled by the rushing water, the long icicles ... and the split between them and the foaming water. As you can see from the SOOC, I slid all over this one!! I felt it could use a bit of colorful slider action!!! Did I mention I love color?
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Hagia Sophia, is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in AD 537. The site was a Greek Orthodox church from AD 360 to 1453, except for a brief time as a Latin Catholic church between the Fourth Crusade and 1261. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, it served as a mosque until 1935, when it became a museum. In 2020, the site once again became a mosque.
The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. It was formally called the Church of God's Holy Wisdom and upon completion became the world's largest interior space and among the first to employ a fully pendentive dome. It is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture[8] and is said to have "changed the history of architecture". The present Justinianic building was the third church of the same name to occupy the site, as the prior one had been destroyed in the Nika riots. As the episcopal see of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, it remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until the Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. Beginning with subsequent Byzantine architecture, Hagia Sophia became the paradigmatic Orthodox church form, and its architectural style was emulated by Ottoman mosques a thousand years later. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as an architectural and cultural icon of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox civilization.
The religious and spiritual centre of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years, the church was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom. It was where the excommunication of Patriarch Michael I Cerularius was officially delivered by Humbert of Silva Candida, the envoy of Pope Leo IX in 1054, an act considered the start of the East–West Schism. In 1204, it was converted during the Fourth Crusade into a Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire, before being returned to the Eastern Orthodox Church upon the restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 1261. Enrico Dandolo, the doge of Venice who led the Fourth Crusade and the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, was buried in the church.
After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, it was converted to a mosque by Mehmed the Conqueror and became the principal mosque of Istanbul until the 1616 construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. Upon its conversion, the bells, altar, iconostasis, ambo, and baptistery were removed, while iconography, such as the mosaic depictions of Jesus, Mary, Christian saints and angels were removed or plastered over. Islamic architectural additions included four minarets, a minbar and a mihrab. The Byzantine architecture of the Hagia Sophia served as inspiration for many other religious buildings including the Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, Panagia Ekatontapiliani, the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex. The patriarchate moved to the Church of the Holy Apostles, which became the city's cathedral.
The complex remained a mosque until 1931, when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum under the secular Republic of Turkey, and the building was Turkey's most visited tourist attraction as of 2019.
In July 2020, the Council of State annulled the 1934 decision to establish the museum, and the Hagia Sophia was reclassified as a mosque. The 1934 decree was ruled to be unlawful under both Ottoman and Turkish law as Hagia Sophia's waqf, endowed by Sultan Mehmed, had designated the site a mosque; proponents of the decision argued the Hagia Sophia was the personal property of the sultan. The decision to designate Hagia Sophia as a mosque was highly controversial. It resulted in divided opinions and drew condemnation from the Turkish opposition, UNESCO, the World Council of Churches and the International Association of Byzantine Studies, as well as numerous international leaders, while several Muslim leaders in Turkey and other countries welcomed its conversion into a mosque.
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La cocathédrale Saint-Michel de Sospel est une cathédrale catholique romaine située dans le village de Sospel.
En 1157, première mention de Sospel comme étant un habitat fortifié. En 1229, la population de Sospel est répartie entre trois paroisses, dont celle de Saint-Michel. L'église possède un clocher roman lombard qui a subsisté à la destruction de l'église romane. Il comprend un haut soubassement de la fin du XII siècle percé dans sa partie supérieure par une baie étroite et haute sur les faces. Il est couronné par un bandeau en dents d'engrenage. Il est surmonté par deux étages se terminant par une flèche pyramidale qui doit être du premier tiers du XIII siècle.
L'église devient cathédrale en 1378 quand la ville prend parti pour le pape d'Avignon contre l'antipape de Rome, pendant le grand schisme d'Occident, jusqu'en 1411.
La cathédrale Saint-Michel, qui se dresse sur une place pavée de galets blancs et gris formant des motifs originaux, a été récemment restaurée.
Elle abrite une œuvre remarquable, le retable dit de la « Vierge immaculée ».
Ce retable à trois volets a été réalisé en 1520 par François Bréa membre d'une famille de peintres niçois.
This is one of 1600 frames from a timelapse I shot here Friday evening. Timelapse will be posted sometime during the week.
What is, is what is; the only other thing is nothing.
Be dissuaded from using language and perspective that conforms to the hierarchical paradigm.
You are not on a journey to go from somewhere lesser to somewhere greater.
Reality exists on a horizontal plane, not a vertical one. All parts of creation are equally valid and relevant.
There is no fantasy OTHER place. This is the place.
You’re not reaching outward, through empty space, you are pressing inward, within denser space.
There is no other anything to know. There is only becoming more familiar and intimate with what is.
By introducing a system of valuation upon the many wonders of creation, we have denied ourselves access to the very fruits of that creation. Otherizing serves only the ego, and is causing a catastrophic schism in the human psyche that breaches civilization and upends the most fundamental root of our existence; the commonality in us all.
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There is no “other” thing.
Nature does not know a lie.
Nature knows no such thing as illusion.
Nature (meaning all of creation) knows only itself as itself.
Nature only is as it is; fully represented as itself at all time; incapable of being any other way.
Lie and illusion in nature are literally impossible.
Lies and illusions occur only in our minds.
A misidentification of what is.
Sometimes based on desire.
Sometimes fear.
Always only seen as a part, and never as whole.
To see things as they are is to see the totality of a thing’s existence.
The revalatory connection bewteen a thing’s truth and the illusion existing in your personal viewpoint is revealed when your eye is in alighnment with nature.
Thus humanity seeks revelation from illusion within “other” places, distant lands, magical states of being.
Your current being is fully magical.
You once knew this clearly, then became habituated to it. The magical became mundane, and wholeness of nature was divided between near and distant parts, desireable and undersirable states.
And so the search for the wholeness of nature began and illusion was born.
There is no other place.
No absence of truth.
There is only a more intimate and unfiltered relationship with what is.
If there was an “other” thing, that thing could only be nothing.
You have everything now.
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Ever since the election I have had a number of persons project their excitement over what they perceive as a Biden win. I hate to bust your bubble ! It is not over ! There have been a myriad of challenges filed, They have found rampant voter fraud, and voting discrepancies in states like Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. ( ghost voters, dead people voting fraudulent ballets ETC. ) No one right now is president ( except Trump finishing out his current term ) The only ones who have called it are the bogus press, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and the like. You should believe nothing that comes from their mouth.
That being said I would like to remind all of you of two situations which exist in the world. One only affects the U.S.. The other the world !
NO,1 The United States is not unified country ! Right now there exists a schism in this country which is not going to heal, no matter who gets elected. It is deep and it is hate filled. No matter the outcome there is going to be violence. If my history professors were correct all the conditions exist for this to happen. The election could be the flash point. Right now things are quite because nothing is settled.
I have heard ( from a source that is reliable ) that neither party is cooperating with the another as would have happened if this had been a fair election, ( which it was not ). I also heard via a news story which featured the minority whip of the house saying Pelosi does not have enough votes to retain her position as speaker of the house. We will see what happens. This process could take a bit of time to sort out.
NO.2 We have to many people in the world. I don't know about the rest of the countries on this planet, but mine has an over abundance of dimwits who are only capable of doing menial work. Those jobs are being given to computers and robots with AI ! The jobs are disappearing. With more people than jobs. What do we do with the dimwits ? The democrats want to give everyone a living wage. That's their answer. Which brings forth another question. Where do we get the funding ? If we took all the money from all the rich people and corporations, including the Queen, the Rothchild's , the bankers in Switzerland, there would still not be enough cash to fund such a pie in the sky plan. Then you have to understand what the democrats mean when they say " living wage ". It means a subsistence level of living. Just enough to survive on but not much else. Don't let their words beguile you, they are snakes in the grass.
I hope you enjoy the latest photograph. It represents what the future looks like.
Hagia Sophia is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.
The Church was dedicated to the Wisdom of God, the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its patronal feast taking place on 25 December, the commemoration of the Birth of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ. Although sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia being the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom, its full name in Greek is Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, "Shrine of the Holy Wisdom of God".Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture." It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters. It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician.
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 15-metre (49 ft) silver iconostasis. The focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years, the building witnessed the excommunication of Patriarch Michael I Cerularius on the part of Pope Leo IX in 1054, an act which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II. By this point, the Church had fallen into a state of disrepair. Nevertheless, the Christian cathedral made a strong impression on the new Ottoman rulers and they decided to convert it into a mosque.The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels and other relics were removed and the mosaics depicting Jesus, his Mother Mary, Christian saints and angels were also removed or plastered over. Islamic features – such as the mihrab, minbar, and four minarets – were added. It remained a mosque until 1931 when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum by the Republic of Turkey.
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Le port de la ville de Constance (Konstanz)¸ Land de Bade-Wurtemberg en Allemagne.
Le Concile (Konzil) est un bâtiment qui a été construit en 1388 près du port en tant que dépôt pour le grain et les marchandises destinés au commerce avec l’Europe du sud et a servi de siège à la célèbre foire du lin de Constance. Son nom lui vient que pendant le Concile de Constance (1414 - 1418), le conclave se tint du 8 au 11 novembre 1417 au premier étage du bâtiment et élisait le cardinal Otto Colonna sous le nom de Martin V comme pape unique.
Enclave allemande sur la rive suisse du lac de Constance (Bodensee), la ville Constance (Konstanz), dont la fondation fut longtemps attribuée à l'empereur romain Constance Chlore (292-306), père du futur Constantin, occupe un site agréable. De 1414 à 1418, un concile y est réuni pour tenter de rétablir l'unité de l'Église compromise par les prétentions de trois dignitaires ecclésiastiques élus au siège pontifical: Jean XXIII, Benoît XIII et Grégoire XII. En 1417, l'élection de Martin V met fin provisoirement au schisme.
Aujourd'hui, Constance est la plus grande et la plus animée des stations du lac, avec un centre médiéval parfaitement intact car grâce à sa proximité avec la Suisse, neutre, elle a évité les bombardements pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Le lac de Constance (Bodensee), le plus grand lac allemand, est surnommée la mer souabe. À cause du micro-climat créé par cette masse d’eau, on appelle cette région la Riviera allemande. Le lac a une longueur de 74 km et une largeur de 15 km. Il atteint 252 m de profondeur.
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Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.
The church was dedicated to the Wisdom of God, the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity,[3] its patronal feast taking place on 25 December, the commemoration of the birth of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ. Although sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia being the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom, its full name in Greek is Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, "Shrine of the Holy Wisdom of God". Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture". It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters. It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician.
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 15-metre (49 ft) silver iconostasis. The focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years, the building witnessed the excommunication of Patriarch Michael I Cerularius on the part of Pope Leo IX in 1054, an act which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who ordered this main church of the Orthodox Christianity converted into a mosque. By that point, the church had fallen into a state of disrepair. Nevertheless, the Christian cathedral made a strong impression on the new Ottoman rulers and they decided to convert it into a mosque. The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels and other relics were removed and the mosaics depicting Jesus, his Mother Mary, Christian saints and angels were also removed or plastered over. Islamic features – such as the mihrab, minbar, and four minarets – were added. It remained a mosque until 1931, when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum by the Republic of Turkey. Haghia Sophia is currently (2014) the second-most visited museum in Turkey, attracting almost 3.3 million visitors annually.
From its initial conversion until the construction of the nearby larger Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque of Istanbul) in 1616, it was the principal mosque of Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia served as inspiration for many other Ottoman mosques, such as the Blue Mosque, the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque.
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Depictions of St. Sylvester wearing a papal headdress are extremely rare in Christian Orthodox iconography. There is such a rarest (or, perhaps, unique) mural inside the 13th-century Sanctuary of the Byzantine church at Porta-Panagia (near Trikala), Greece. St. Sylvester stands 2nd from the left, next to St. John of Alexandria the Merciful (extending an olive branch). The mural dates from 1283.
The church was erected in 1283 AD. The murals had been covered with lime mortar by the Muslims during the long Ottoman occupation (1394–1881); they were uncovered in 1964.
Sylvester Ⅰ︎, the Pope (bishop) of Rome (285–335 AD) was canonized before the Schism (feast day: Jan 2 in Christian Orthodox Church). He was coeval with Constantine the Great (288–337 AD), the Roman Emperor who moved his capital to Byzantium / Constantinople.
staring into the untempered schism, or more locally known as that (adams plaza) bridge@Canary wharf, LDN
Lower Sour Grapes.
Számított arany uralkodási utódlások a művészet fogant napjaiban a szedíció kipusztulásának birtokfrakciói különös jeleket adnak a kormányok motívumainak,
дургүйцэх асуудал удахгүй болох үл хөдлөх хөрөнгийг аюулын харанга дэлдэх, шуурга шуурах мэдээ, аварга том үймээн самуун,
סכסוכים פייסות עניינים חמורים בוז כיסאות אנשים פושרים סעיפים בסיסיים דעות שרירותיות נקודות מהפכות,
divisions raisons religions rites schismes corruptions calamités conclusions rapides et soutenues exemples principaux délinquants criminels,
άσχημα επιχειρήματα εισβολή επιχειρηματικών αγνώστων σκέψεων γενικοί νόμοι σκληροί όροι γνώσεις γνώσης της προσοχής σημεία που ανταλλάσσουν εφαρμογές,
incongruenze direzioni stimate carenze parti artificiali estremità pratiche punizioni prescritte prudenza impressioni,
知識のつるは異言を話すメリット契約の制限熟考暗闇天体物事判断心.
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This was the first picture taken with my Mamiya RB67 medium format film camera, shown in my "Les Chemins de Verre" image. This picture was shot during a recent visit to the homeland, the same day as my Schism image taken inside the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal, when I decided to play tourist.
It was taken from the top of the oldest chapel in Montreal, the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (350 years old, old by Canadian standards), and located in the Old Montreal district.
Today the chapel also houses the Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum, which is dedicated to the first teacher of the Ville Marie Colony and to the early history of Montreal. The chapel was also built atop a crypt, which is currently an archeological site being excavated.
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"W HOŁDZIE DZIENKCZYNNYM NAJŚWIĘTRZEJ MARJI PANNIE ZA OBRONĘ CUDOWNĄ PRZECIWKO HEREZJI MARJAWICKIEJ I ZA UTRZYMANIE PARAFII DMOSIN PRZY ŚW. RZUMSKO-KATOLICKIM KOŚCIELE TĘ FIGURĘ NA WIECZNĄ RZECZY PAMIĄTKĘ WZNOSZĄ WDZIĘCZNE DZIECI MARJI MIESZKAŃCY WSI.
SMOSIN, SZCZECIN, LUBOWIDZA, KARWOWSZCZYZNA, KRASZEW, KUŹMY, BŁOWICZ, RÓŻYCE DMOSIŃSKIE, MICHAŁÓW I INNI."
pisownia oryginalna
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The Mariavite Church was an independent Christian church that emerged from the Catholic Church of Poland at the turn of the 20th century. Initially, it was an internal movement leading to a reform of the Polish clergy.
After a conflict with Polish bishops, it became a separate and independent religious denomination.
The denomination was led by Jan Maria Michał Kowalski from the 1920s until 1935 when Kowalski was deposed and a schism resulted in two groups:
the Mariavite Old Catholic Church, also called Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites, also called the Old Catholic Mariavite Church of Poland was led after 1935 by Maria Filip Feldman (pl) in Płock
the Catholic Church of the Mariavites was led after 1935 by Kowalski in Felicjanow
Old Catholic Mariavite Church was, and still is, the larger of the two groups.
After 1935, the leadership of the smaller group, the Catholic Mariavite Church remained in the hands of Kowalski, and later in the hands of his widow, Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska.
Old Catholic Mariavite Church is a member of the Polish Ecumenical Council, and also of the World Council of Churches. It is not currently a member of the Old Catholic Union of Utrecht.
Catholic Mariavite Church stands away from the ecumenical movement.
more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariavite_Church
and I have to explain - wiki says that there were "pogroms" of the members of the Mariavite Church but to my knowledge, both sides took part in a local war which led to fierce fights and there are the victims' graves in the local graveyards. This church here remained Roman catholic and the parishers have been thankful to Mother Mary that she let them stay in the religion they believe in.
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In Cades Cove and the surrounding Smokies area, it took faith to settle the American frontier so religion was a big part of life for the settlers. John and Lucretia Oliver, two of the first permanent settlers in Cades Cove, introduced the Baptist denomination to the area in 1825. Up until the founding of the Baptist Church at this time, the people of Cades Cove had to travel through the Smoky Mountains to attended Sunday services in Millers and Wears Coves. They also went to campground revivals in Tuckaleechee Cove, present day Townsend.
The Cades Cove Baptist church was established in 1827 but, in time, a schism developed over biblical interpretation. One side said the scripture allowed for missionary work and others in the congregation said it did not. This problem was not isolated to the Baptists in the Smokies but was widespread elsewhere as well. As for the Cades Cove Baptists, they decided to rename their church in order to distinguish it from Baptists with other beliefs in the area. Their church became known as the Primitive Baptist Church in 1841. The small congregation met in a log structure for sixty years until this white frame church was built in 1887.
During the Civil War the church closed due to the divided loyalties of the population in Cades Cove. The Primitive Baptist church members were loyal to the Union but Southern sentiment was also very strong in the Cove. A cemetery behind the church is the final resting place for many of the early church members and other settlers from the Cove.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
"Laufenburg is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is the seat of the district of the same name. On 1 January 2010 the municipality Sulz merged into Laufenburg.
It has approximately 2000 inhabitants. On the other side of the Rhine River lies Laufenburg (Baden), Germany. The same name is not by accident, as the two used to be the same city. In the early 19th century Napoleon divided the city. Two bridges now link both cities.
In 1985, Laufenburg received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.
A high point along the Rhine river with a rapids section about 8 km (5.0 mi) from Säckingen Abbey was chosen as a place for a strategic bridge over the river. The Kastvogtei (a feudal land holder appointed by the Abbey) transferred his loyalty to the Habsburgs in 1173. Laufenburg is first mentioned in 1207 as Loufenberc. In this 1207 document, the rights of the Abbey to parts of the village were secured while the castles on both sides of the Rhine were given over to the Kastvogt. This allowed Rudolf II of Habsburg to expand the site to the city. He is considered the founder of the city. After his death in 1232, the family split into the dominant line of Habsburg-Austria and the younger line of Habsburg-Laufenburg. The last representative of the Habsburg-Laufenburg line, Hans IV (1408) sold control of Laupenburg to Leopold III in 1386. It became part of the Further Austria and one of the four Habsburg Forest Cities on the Rhine. During the schism at the Council of Constance in 1415 the Antipope John XXIII fled to Laufenburg and withdrew his resignation.
After the Swiss conquest of the nearby Aargau, which was triggered by the schism, Laufenburg was the starting point of several campaigns against the Confederates. In retaliation, Bern, Solothurn and Basel besieged Laufenburg during the Old Zurich War in 1443. During the 15th Century, it was offered as collateral for a loan from Burgundy. As a result, it was briefly under Burgundy's control. During the Thirty Years War it was occupied for 13 years. In 1792 it was the base for the French Revolutionary Army. With the Lunéville peace of 1801 part of the Fricktal went to France and the rest went to the Helvetic Republic in 1802. The Rhine River was chosen as the border between the districts. The complicated division of community property took until 1829 to finish. Most of the city's facilities such as city hall, the market, the grain and salt house and two thirds of the population lived in the Swiss portion. While two-thirds of the territory, most of the commercial buildings, the common forest and the commons were in the German town." - info from Wikipedia.
During the summer of 2018 I went on my first ever cycling tour. On my own I cycled from Strasbourg, France to Geneva, Switzerland passing through the major cities of Switzerland. In total I cycled 1,185 km over the course of 16 days and took more than 8,000 photos.
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Another shot from my current favourite 'local' beach - Ness Cove. I took a similar photo earlier this year and hope to be there when the light is good one day. The cracks in the barnacle-covered rock serve as a good foreground I think. I waited until the waves were flushing into the crevasses before pressing the shutter - risking a soaking but stayed dry :-)
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