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The most glorious building in the sanctuary is the Basilica of Santa Maria la Real de Covadonga. Standing on a hill it is visible long before you reach the sanctuary. Its rosy appearance comes from the pink marble excavated from the mountains of Covadonga. The first drafts for the basilica were made by Roberto Frassinelli, a versatile German erudite, but the plans were finished by Frederico Aparici. Construction started in 1877, and the inauguration took place in 1901.
Details of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and its beautiful stained glass. I learned to love stained glass from my mother.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, also known as the Saint Louis Cathedral, was completed in 1914. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the seat of its archbishop. The cathedral was designated a basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1997. It is located at 4431 Lindell Blvd.
The cathedral was built as a replacement for the previous Cathedral of St. Louis located along the Mississippi River. Although workers began clearing ground for the building in 1907, the dedication and first mass did not take place until 1914,
The architecture firm of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett was selected, and Thomas P. Barnett led the design team for the project. In 1912, installation of mosaics in the interior began. Completed in 1988, the mosaics collectively contain 41.5 million glass tesserae pieces in more than 7,000 colors. Covering 83,000 square feet, it is the largest mosaic collection in the world outside Russia. Although the mosaics in the side chapels and sanctuary walls were designed and installed by Tiffany Studios, the mosaics in the main cathedral areas were designed by August Oetken.
Hagia Sophia 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. (Source: Wikipedia)
Post Terremoto Chile 8.8
Huérfanos con Almirante Barroso
Stgo ~ Chile
Efectos del terremoto en Chile del 27 de Marzo, 2010.
Si bien esta basílica estaba en malas condiciones hace un tiempo, el terremoto acentuó esta situación.
Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of Kaunas.
First mentioned in written sources in 1413.
It was greatly damaged in the 1655 military campaign during the Thirteen Years' War, rebuilt in 1671 with some Renaissance features. In 1732 only one of the two former towers were rebuilt after the the roof fire.
Its current shape is from the renovations made in 1800.
St Mark's Square in Venice, flooded with both water and tourists. I was lucky to grab this shot as I didn't think to take a tripod , so this is handheld at ISO1000 and 1/8th second. Shame about the noise, but it couldn't be helped.
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Basilica Cistern, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey
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In Explore May 22, 2014 # 61
The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a major church in the upper town of Bergamo, Northern Italy.
According to the popular tradition, partially supported by documents, the church was built to comply with a vow made to the Virgin Mary in 1133 by the citizens of Bergamo to protect the city from the plague that was hitting northern Italy at that time.
The inscription on the portal of the southern entrance (known as entrance of the "White Lions") says that the church was founded in 1137 on the site of another church from the 8th century dedicated to St Mary, which had been in turn erected over a Roman temple of the Clemence. The high altar was consecrated in 1185 and in 1187 the presbytery and the transept wings were completed. Due to financial troubles, the works dragged for the whole 13th–14th centuries. The bell tower was built from 1436 (being completed around the end of the century), while in 1481–1491 a new sacristy added after the old one had been destroyed by Bartolomeo Colleoni to erect his personal mausoleum, the Colleoni Chapel.
On the 23 of June 1449, the Senate and the Grand Council of Bergamo entrusted the management of the church to the Consorzio della Misericordia Maggiore, a prestigious association founded in 1265 by Pinamonte da Brembate, in order to preserve and enrich the artistic heritage of the Basilica. On the 14 of March 1453, Pope Nicholas V declared the church exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, and dependent on papal jurisdiction. This allowed the creation of free grammar and music schools for children in need, at the service of the liturgies in the Basilica.
In 1521, Pietro Isabello finished the south-western portal, also known as Porta della Fontana. The edifice was restored and modified in the 17th century.
The church opens on the square (Piazza Duomo) on its own left side, as the main façade has no entrance, being once united to the Bishops' Palace. The external appearance has largely maintained its Lombard Romanesque origins. The church can be accessed by two entrances by Giovanni da Campione (1353) and by Isabello's Porta della Fontana.
The main apse is crowned by a loggia surmounted by two frieze with geometrical and vegetables patterns, and has blind arcades with semi-columns. The latter's capitals have also vegetable themes, with the exception of one, decorated by Angels with Last Judgement's Trumpets. The transept's apses have a structure similar to the main one.
Notable is Giovanni da Campione's porch in the left transept, which is supported by columns departing from lions in Veronese marble. the arch has a frieze with hunting scenes, while the vault is decorated by polychrome lozenges. A loggia houses statues of St Barbara, St Vincent and St Alexander. At the peak is a Gothic niche by Hans von Fernach (1403), with the Madonna with Child flanked by St Esther and St Grata (1398). also by Giovanni da Campione is the porch of the right transept, with a similar though simpler structure. The columns are supported by lions in white marble. It has reliefs with Christ Crowned by Saints and Birth of the Baptist.
Isabello's Renaissance porch has, in the lunette, a fresco of Mary's Nativity attributed to Andrea Previtali.
The Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul.
While the unseen storm rages outside.
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Esztergom, Basilica, Hungary
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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome.
It was initially planned by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the aging Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the 4th century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
The Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul.
The storm outside subsiding.
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