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Einhardsbasilika, with its well-preserved central nave, dates from the 9th century and is one of only a few extant examples of Karolingian sacral architecture.
Leica M3, single stroke (IGEMO), 1966
Dual Range Leitz Summicron f= 5 cm 1:2 (M+DR-rigid-chrom, 11318), 1960 with yellow filter
Kodak TMAX 400 black&white negative film
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Between the mountains of Ovcar (985m) and Kablar (889m), the river Zapadna Morava shaped and formed the Ovcar-Kablar gorge, one of the most beautiful gorges in Serbia. Due to it’s extraordinary beauty, abundance in flora and fauna, ten monasteries, preserved sacral and memorial objects and their landmarks and other values, as well, this magic gorge, 8km away from Cacak, has been proclaimed protected natural estate by the governmental Act of the Republic of Serbia, as a region of outstanding features.
In the „hart“ of Ovcar-Kablar Gorge, in oasis of greenery and peacefulness, lies Ovcar Banja spa. Situated at an altitude of 278m above see level, Ovcar Banja (Ovcar spa) has rich thermal springs and water has been used or treatment of rheumatism, spondilosis, arthritis and sport injures. Nature was exceptionally generous to this region, as well as many fast clear mountain rivers, steep cliffs, wooded the landscapes that will take your breath away.
Althought only 20km long, Ovcar-Kablar Gorge is one of the most beautiful gorges in Serbia, which breasts hide it’s biggest treasure, beautiful medieval monasteries. Because of them this gorge got popular name „Serbian Holly Hill“. Once wild and inaccessible, Ovcar-Kablar Gorge today has 10 monasteries: Vavedenje, Nikolje, Jovanje, Preobrazenje, Sretenje, Svete Trojice, Uspenije, Vaznesenje, Ilinje, Blagovestenje as well as the Church of St. Sava and church-cave Kadjenica.
Text from www.ovcarbanja.rs/srpski/ok_klisura.html
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The monastery of the Benedictine Order at Pannonhalma was founded in 996 in Western Hungary and had a major role in the diffusion of Christianity in medieval Central Europe. The monastery shows a stratification of different architectural styles and various buildings.
Among these buildings: a school (the first ever school founded in the country), the monastic complex – home to the monks whose life is still based on St. Benedict’s Rule ‘Ora et labora’ -, the tourist welcome points and hospitality facilities, the Chapel of Our Lady, the Millennium Chapel and the botanical and herbal gardens.
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The Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy is a sacral complex associated with the life and activity of Sister Faustina Kowalska. From the 1940s, a place of pilgrimage connected with the presence of the image of Merciful Jesus and the tomb of Sister Faustina.
The Sanctuary includes, among others;
1. historic monastery complex of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy,
2. the chapel of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, of St. Joseph
3. a modern basilica of the Divine Mercy,
Inside the chapel of St. Joseph is the image of Merciful Jesus, painted according to the vision of Faustyna Kowalska. Since the beatification of Sister Faustina (1993) her mortal remains as relics rest on the side altar under the image of Merciful Jesus. This image quickly became famous for favors and its copies and reproductions spread all over the world. This is the most famous image of the image of Merciful Jesus.
In the years 1999-2002, next to the monastery complex, a modern, two-level, ellipsoidal basilica was built over which the 77-meter high observation tower dominates.
The dynamic development of the Sanctuary took place after the beatification of Sister Faustina on April 18, 1993, and its canonization on April 30, 2000, as well as thanks to the pilgrimages of Pope John Paul II (1997 and 2002) and Pope Benedict XVI (2006).
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Sanktuarium Bożego Miłosierdzia to kompleks sakralny, związany z życiem i działalnością Siostry Faustyny Kowalskiej. Od lat 40-tych XX wieku miejsce pielgrzymek związanych z obecnością obrazu Jezusa Miłosiernego oraz grobu Siostry Faustyny.
W skład Sanktuarium wchodzą między innymi;
1. zabytkowy zespół klasztorny Sióstr Matki Bożej Miłosierdzia,
2. kaplica Wieczystej Adoracji Najświętszego Sakramentu, pw. św. Józefa
3. nowoczesna bazylika Bożego Miłosierdzia,
We wnętrzu kaplicy św. Józefa znajduje się obraz Jezusa Miłosiernego, namalowany według wizji Faustyny Kowalskiej. Od czasu beatyfikacji Siostry Faustyny (1993) jej doczesne szczątki jako relikwie spoczywają na bocznym ołtarzu pod obrazem Jezusa Miłosiernego. Obraz ten szybko zasłynął łaskami a jego kopie i reprodukcje rozeszły się po świecie. Jest to najbardziej znany wizerunek obrazu Jezusa Miłosiernego.
W latach 1999–2002 obok zespołu klasztornego wybudowano nowoczesną, dwupoziomową, elipsoidalną bazylikę nad którą góruje 77-metrowa wieża widokowa.
Dynamiczny rozwój Sanktuarium nastąpił po beatyfikacji siostry Faustyny 18 kwietnia 1993 roku, i jej kanonizacji 30 kwietnia 2000 roku, a także dzięki pielgrzymkom papieża Jana Pawła II (1997 i 2002) oraz papieża Benedykta XVI (2006).
Wat Rong Khun - the White Temple, is a contemporary, unconventional, privately owned, art exhibit in the style of a Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, about 15 kilometers southwest of Chiang Rai.
It is owned by Chalermchai Kositpipat, who designed, constructed, and opened it to visitors in 1997.
The pictures were taken in December 2012 before in May 2014 the temple has been damaged by an earthquake.
But the main structures of the building and other parts of the temple were completely renovated during the last years.
Also there is still hope to reconstruct some art and filigree work over the next few years, for example, one of the rooftops, which is kinked.
Not far away from the North Sea coast (see horizon), nearly the same northern latitude level as Aberdeen in Scotland
Wald is a village in the south of Baden – Württemberg in the district of Sigmaringen.
Masterbuilder Franz Beer I. built this sacral building between 1696 and 1698. the consecration was held by the auxiliary bishop of Constance in the year 1709.
Abess Maria Dioscora von Thurn und Valsassina let in the years 1751 – 1766 the inner rebuilt in rococo style.
Johann Jakob Schwarzmann was the stucco plasterer, Johann Melchior Eggmann painted the frescos. But he left the building site, so, Meinrad von Ow finished the paintings. On the rgue gallery the is an instrument constructed by Johann Georg Aichgasser, the only one who exist made by him.
Sant´Ignazio di Loyola is one of the largest churches of Rome and the second big Church of the Jesuit Order in this town.
1626 they started to built this sacral building. The backgroud was a competition, because of the sanctification of Ignatius of Loyola 1622. 1685 the church was finished with te paintings of the frescos.
Sant´Ignazio di Loyola is famous for its persperctive paintings by Andrea Pozzo. The fresco in the nave shows the apotheosis of Ignatius of Loyla.
This church was built between 1518 and 1589. The plans for this sacral building was by Giacomo della Porta and was built by Domenico Fontana. At October the 8th. 1589 the church was consecrated by the Cardinal François de Joyeuse.
The church is famous for his three paintings from Caravaggio, shown in the Contarelli Chapel
Pastoor van Arskerk, Den Haag
In 1963 kreeg architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) de opdracht een rooms-katholieke kerk te ontwerpen voor een nieuwe parochie in Kijkduin, aan de rand van ‘Meer en Bos’. In 1969 werd de Heilige Pastoor van Ars-kerk ingewijd. Vriend en vijand spraken hun bewondering uit: het gebouw was gedurfd, uniek in zijn soort. De eigenzinnige Van Eyck had gebroken met vrijwel alle bouwtradities binnen de katholieke kerk, zonder dat dit ten koste was gegaan van de sacrale sfeer.
(www.rkparochiedevierevangelisten.nl/pastoor-van-ars)
Architectuur en fotodag met Suus
It was undated and unmarked. I know that my mother shot this. It must have been in the early 1960s, on the lower Meghna in what then was East Pakistan and now is Bangladesh, and it might be at the start or the end of the monsoon season, but that is all I can reconstruct.
Clearly the river determines every aspect of the villagers' lives. It provides them with all they need for a living, it is the main artery through which all goods are channeled that they cannot make by themselves, but when the cyclones barrel north through the bay of Bengal and push a mighty wall of water ahead of them, the river also brings death.
And the music is ---> here
I would like to know what that large structure is. It looks like some sacral architecture, but that region is predominantly muslim, and I think the style is different from a mosque. I wonder whether I will ever find out where this is ...
I have no idea which camera and film was used here.
St. Stephan is the parish church of Deisenhausen, a village in the bavarian district of Günzburg.
Architect was Joseph Dossenberger the Jounger, and it was built between 1766/67 in rococo style.
Johann Baptist Enderle painted the frescosc, and the stucco was made by the brother Hölzle from Kemmental.
The door to the right as you enter the basilica leads to the crypt, a series of eerie vaults at the bottom of 50 steps, with tombs guarded by monoliths representing Mourning and Eternity. Among those at rest here are Cardinal József Mindszenty.
Ophrys apifera, detta Fior d'ape o Fior di vespa o Vesparia, nell'aspetto richiama la forma di un'ape.
nella sua storia evolutiva ha perso lo specifico insetto impollinatore e ha imparato ad autofecondarsi.
ogni scatto è un gesto raccolto,
un invito a fermarsi e ascoltare,
a non disturbare l’ Anima del luogo, questo Luogo poi è impregnato di Sentimento!
a percepire la voce nascosta della Natura,
quella che parla solo a chi sa tacere.
la Natura si svela allora in punta di piedi,
non con clamore, ma con la sacralità del momento,
dove il Cuore diventa altare,
e la fotografia un rito di Silenzio e meraviglia.
Wat Rong Suea Ten
The Blue Temple of Chiang Rai /
For further information :
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www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/wat-rong-suea-ten-th... /
Ruins of a medieval fortified church are located above the village of Lúčka, situated at the border of the Slovenské rudohorie mountain range and the national park of Slovenský kras. The village had been known since 1409 as part of the Turňa Castle Estate donated to Pál Besen by King Sigismund.
According to the testimony provided by the local church, however, the village dates back to at least the half of the 13th century. The church itself was built as an early-Gothic church of the Gemer style. In the first half of the 15th century, it was surrounded by a defensive stone wall with a watchtower situated in the front. The small fortress was captured by Jan Jiskra’s troopsand is commonly called the Hussite church by the locals. Only the external walls of the church and the considerably lowered defensive wall with the tower that later on served as a belfry have been preserved up to the present. The quadratic tower used to have two floors in the past, with three windows on the first floor and three loopholes on the ground floor that served to watch the surroundings and to protect the fortress from three sides: the west, the south, and the east. The top of the slope upon which the church was built provided for the natural protection from the north.
The area where the church stands counts among the ecologically cleanest territories in Slovakia. It provides for exceptionally good conditions for recreationin a peaceful natural setting and for short walks in the basin of the Čremošná, to the lake of Lúčka, as well as to the surrounding beech and fir forests. Moreover, the unique natural reserve of Zádielska dolina is located in close distance, lined with plateaux where traces of fortified prehistoric settlements were confirmed by archaeological surveys.
Plešivec is an ancient seat of the Bubek family. The Ákoš family, the ancestors of the Bubeks, received it from King Belo IV. in 1243, after the battle on the Slaná River, where the ancestor of the Bubeks, Detrik, allegedly saved the king’s life. After stabilizing his position in 1320, Dominik Bubek built a water castle in Plešivec. In its vicinity, he built a monumental church, which also served as a burial place for the representatives of the family. It was constructed on the site of an older church built by his ancestors. The church, originally nearly twice as long as it is now, was a two-nave Gothic building with a polygonal ending of the chancel, originally vaulted on the central pillars.
From 1349, we have a record of the request of Juraj Bubek to the Pope for the possibility of collecting the indulgences to finance its construction. In the middle of the 14th century, the interior of the church was completed with fresco paintings of very high quality, carried out by Italian masters. In the first quarter of the 15th century, the church was completed with the north-facing funeral chapel of the Bubeks, built according to the pattern of the Spiš funeral chapels. We enter into the chapel through an impressive portal, the architecture of which is associated with the works of the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Košice. In its interior, we find three three-part late Gothic windows with an original tracery in the ogive arch shape and corbels of the former vaults.
In 1558, at the time of the Turkish threat, the church was severely damaged, the vault collapsed and the building remained as a ruin until its reconstruction in 1617. By that time, the church was taken over by the reformed believers who reduced its layout to its current length of 19 meters; they covered the nave with a flat ceiling and closed the entrance to the unused chapel. At that stage, the entrance to the church was established from the south and three window openings were made on the south wall. From that period comes a valuable matroneum with painted decorations from 1627. In 1807, a bell-tower was built, a beautiful example of the so-called Gemer classicism.
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... the only one who listen patiently recitals
of my I'm noted so these are inscriptions
in Rome and Coliseum's walls destroyed eons
ago by barbarians, in languages without spelling
and punctuation identical a-la quote-open
"poly-glyphs" (instead familiar hieroglyphs!)
not yet deciphered by student of the language,
so, clinging to the linguist's pupil upon artifact,
am not addressing projecting into Space
annoying lamentation, but to submissive mirrors
only and only silent witnesses forever
and oppressed to not up-grade from poverty
and chaos, and tirades from podiums of liars
habitually broadcasting certified by seals
destructive edicts of fundamental and genetic
massacre, eradicating God and God's inserted
script from every cell of our bodies...
But in my shortage from fading memory of
lost and found crumbs alike an archaeologist relying
for carbon analysis am in intelligibly-bilingual and
loud mode, a-la a salesman from street in full Moon
night, and so am cry out not to old Cicero:
to patient mirrors postulating (from the word
"Postulate"!) that my existence and many others!
only upon the Lord's mercy, and this is a gift
and will of His Almighty's in his supremacy
and absolutely hypostasis to guard these gifts
of human Life, and thus affirming logically the
holiness of human's Life supporting dictum
"sanctity" and "Santo-sacral" thus equal
"immunity" of diplomats, and therefore, this
dictum stands rock-hard (imagine!) above
egregious conspiracies, and violent mandates,
spasmodic and hysterical decrees, of course!
above all ideology within and under
"radical X squared", encapsulating
false Venetian masquerade, indeed!
So, be sure that creativity of yours is tangible, and
seen in each of your creative works strained
impulses through iron bars, and nets, and shadows,
and through reflections of dusk-tinted glass, in each
of petal, a leaf, in tremble of slender hands still hear
your real Life heart-beat and pulse, and sum of voices
as confirmation of "alive! alive!"...
And also a cry, and any single voice, from all of the
creative, so inner strength of credo yours
pulsating like a bright and radiant immense,
otherwise it pours without edge beginning
of the run in midst of Universe,
in its fluctuation from our existence,
and response to our voices,
yours and only yours,
in sea of drops the Ocean created...
The Chapelle Saint-Pierre (Saint Peter's Chapel) dates from the sixteenth century. Used as a storeroom for local fishermen's nets and equipment for most of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, it was eventually restored in 1957. The interior of the chapel was decorated by the artist Jean Cocteau with many paintings/murals. Unfortunately, it is not allowed to take pictures of them.
Villefranche-sur-Mer is located on the French Riviera between the city of Nice and Monaco.
Thank you for your visits / comments / faves!
Church of st. Mary Magdalene in Dukla is one of the most valuable Polish rococo churches.
It was built as a gothic one, around 1461, with a brick chancel and a wooden nave. When in 1738 there was a fire in the city, the nave burned down entirely, and the chancel became the basis for the reconstruction of the temple.
The owner of Dukla and the Grand Marshal of the Crown, Józef Wandalin Mniszech, the same one who donated the land for the Bernardine monastery, undertook it. The temple was given a baroque appearance, but another fire and the death of Józef Vandalin in 1747 interrupted the work. They were continued in 1764 by the son of the marshal, Jerzy August Mniszech, supported by his wife, Maria Amalia. It was then that the church's interior acquired a rococo interior and fittings that have survived to this day.
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This is the pilgrimage church Maria Birnbaum in Sielenbach in Bavaria. Konstantin Pader, master builder from Munich, got the order to built a new church. Philipp Jacob von Kaltenthal made the plane of this church.
1661 Pader started the building, 1668 it was consecrated by the auxiliary bishop from Augsburg.
The reason of the pilgrimage was, that a figure of the Holy Maria was truncated by Swedish soldiers in the Thirty Year´s War. This figure was put in a hole of a pear – tree. This part of this tree with the hole and the figure can be seen today behind the high altar.
When I made this photo, the inner of this church was full of incense.
Al'inizio della nostra storia personale - e anche della nostra memoria - spesso c'è una chiesa ( come luogo). La memoria che ne abbiamo può essere traumatica, sgradevole, difficile, pacificante, confortevole... Certo è che quelle penombre, il silenzio, le dimensioni, la sacralità non possono non aver lasciato traccia in noi.
Il famoso 'Perchè non possiamo non dirci cristiani' di Benedetto Croce, per molti, sempre più numerosi, sta perdendo il suo senso. Nè qui vogliamo parlare del credo o non-credo religioso di ciascuno.
'Memorie e Sogni' è un luogo dove vogliamo far prevalere il senso del ricordo, il segno dell'emotività, magari anche divertita, non certo un forum in cui dibattere temi gravi e importanti.
La mia foto: l'interno della cattedrale di San Giusto a Trieste.
Questa è la ventesima foto di un progetto dal titolo 'Memorie e sogni', nato da uno scambio di idee e riflessioni con Nene.
Non so nemmeno io come proseguirà, ma ho accettato volentieri la sua proposta. Collaborazione, dialogo, 'sfida'...un progetto che cerca di riferirsi alla memoria, al sogno, all'esistenza....
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Sono gradite le visite anche alla foto di Nene. Ricordiamo che questo è un progetto ' a due mani', che è nato e che continua in un piacevole scambio e confronto. Perciò le due foto, sua e mia, non sono da considerarsi singole, ma unite tra loro da un intento comune.
Invitiamo anche a visitare le altre foto presenti nel gruppo, perchè si stanno già formando altre 'coppie' con lo stesso progetto.
The Cathedral of Seville is built on the old aljama mosque of the city, this shows the power that one culture exercises over another when it is conquered. This fact makes its plan different, facing Mecca and not Jerusalem, that is, facing south instead of east. It should be clarified that Mecca is oriented at 10o from Seville and not at 86o as the old mosque is oriented, this is due to the fact that in Al-Andalus the mosques had to be oriented towards the south quadrant and not towards the east, as the Christian churches did. When the Cathedral Chapter commissioned the design of the Gothic Cathedral, it stated verbatim that it wanted a Cathedral that everyone who saw it would take for crazy. For this, 5 naves were created that covered the 116 by 76 meter rectangle occupied by the Almohad mosque, this results, unlike what was usual in the great European Gothic Cathedrals, a hall plan with a Latin cross marked in height and in width by the central naves and the transept. This hall plan also results in the absence of an ambulatory at the head, which ends in a straight line like the wall of the old mosque. Later the Royal Chapel would be added, which is a Renaissance apse, but it does not really correspond to the Gothic company. In the naves of the Gospel and the Epistle, which are the lateral naves, there are many chapels. The 60 pillars support 68 ogive vaults, highlighting those of the transept and central nave with their star shapes. Instead of placing a clerestory, a continuous balcony was chosen along the main nave in order to be able to wander around the temple without being seen. Located in the central nave, in order from the feet, are the Retrochoir, the Choir, with two organs, the Transept, the Main Altar, the Back of Altar and the Royal Chapel.
Munich
St. Salvator,
also called Salvator Church (Salvatorkirche),
is the former cemetery church of Frauenkirche
(Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady (Dom zu unserer lieben Frau)).
Since 1829 the church is used by Greek Orthodox and is now the headquarters of the Metropolitan of Germany and Exarch of Central Europe.
It is called "Transfiguration of the Savoir" by the Greek Orthodox community.
@Wikipedia
I just like the sacral art
The Monastery at Lébény was established between 1199 and 1203, by a nobleman, for private worship. The complex was dedicated to the Apostle Saint James the Great. Though the existing charter for approving the donations and construction was signed by Andreas II (1208), one of the walls of the church had “1206” engraved in them, which may indicate that the church was already built at that time. It is also mentioned in the RegestrumVaradiense (an important language memorial), which was made in the late cathedral chapter of the present Oradea (Nagyvárad) in the 13th century. The monastery of Lébény was attacked and burnt down several times; the first by Mongols, then the second by King Ottokar I of Bohemia; and thereafter by the Turks, which was probably in 1529 and definitely in 1683. The monastery was taken back from the Turks by the arch-abbot of Pannonhalma in 1540. He named a new abbot, though the title only existed on paper for a little bit longer than two decades. In 1563 the monastery was burnt down again for the third time and was left devoured. Presently, the only part of the complex that is still standing is the iconic three-nave Romanesque church in the middle of Lébény village. This church is one of the most important Romanesque style buildings of Hungary, which was most probably restored in the 17th century by the Jesuits, and it was the first ever Hungarian monument that was restored in the second half of the 19th century. In addition, the Romanesque church is also operating as a parish of the village.