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A jewel among churches - the wooden Church of St. St. Nicholas is one of the oldest and most beautiful wooden churches in Slovakia. The three-part log building with a richly ornamented shingled roof and three towers was built in 1658. In 2008 it was entered in the UNESCO World Heritage List together with seven other wooden churches from the area of Slovak Carpathians.
The sacral monument is a part of a unique complex located in the center of Bodružal in the Svidník district. In addition to the temple, it also consists of a separate bell tower, an adjacent cemetery and a wooden fence with a shingled roof and an entrance gate covered by a conical roof.
The three church towers symbolizing the Holy Trinity will catch your attention for sure. The highest tower houses the bells, which were used for military purposes at the beginning of the World War I - the inhabitants of the village replaced them in the second half of the 1920s. The oldest preserved bell features the inscription “1759”.
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Gothic cathedral in the Royal Castle Wawel, in Krakow. Place of Polish kings were crowned and their burial.
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“Há uma sacralidade nas lágrimas. Elas não são a marca da fraqueza, mas de poder, são mensageiras de sofrimento esmagador e de amor indizível.”
[Washington Irving]
Biru ‘e Concas è un eccezionale sito archeologico che contiene un raggruppamento di menhir fra i più importanti dell’intera area mediterranea. Sono circa 200 monoliti, alcuni isolati, altri in piccoli gruppi, altri ancora disposti in circoli o allineati fino a un numero di 20 menhir. Molti giacciono sul terreno, interi o spezzati, fuori dalla loro posizione originaria.
La visita di questo luogo mi ha veramente impressionato, per l’atmosfera di sacralità che le sue antichissime pietre riescono a trasmettere, ma anche perché si estende in mezzo ad alberi secolari, fra conifere, castagni e nocciole, in un ambiente naturale di emozionante bellezza.
(v. altre foto di Biru ‘e Concas nello stesso album “Pedras fittas, i menhir di Sardegna”).
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Godess of mercy statue.
Linh Ung pagoda (Bai But close to Da Nang, Vietnam).
Its the highest statue in Vietnam (67 meters height approximately 30 stories).
For size comparison, note the people in the foreground!
Beautiful fresco on the interior ceiling of the Church of St Peter and St Paul, the co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek, a neo-Gothic sacral structure built in 1898, located in Osijek, Osijek-Baranja county, Slavonia region of Croatia.
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The church of Pfullendorf, a town in Baden-Wüttemberg, was first built in gothic style. They started 1352 and finished it in 1481.
In the 18th century, 1750, the interior was rebuilt in baroque style. The master of this was Johann Jakob Schwarzmann (stucco) and Meinrad von Ow (paintings).
Rustem Pasha Mosque -
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Örményország - Armenia
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Carahunge (örményül: Zorats Karer) a világ legősibb obszervatóriuma Örményországban, Jerevántól 200km-re. Korát 7500 évre becsülik, vagyis idősebb, mint az angliai Stonehenge. 222 db kő van koncentrikus körökben felállítva, ebből 84 lyukas.
Könnyen lehet, hogy az úgynevezett "horgonykövek" is igazából ősi pogány csillagvizsgáló kövek.
The ancient city is only about to wake up, and it was really chilly ... It was hardly possible to see anything while you were travelling by boat.
To take actual shots I had to get more close to the object though the fog was all around quite thick, but the atmosphere was something incredible that I've never felt before, a pure mystic pleasure that will wave you to come back here again and again.
Sentado, fui testar o filtro de densidade neutra variável, quando olhei para o alto esse garoto me xeretava por cima. Agradeci a composição....
Meu menino deus tem ascendência espartana e disputará a sombra da cruz com a geração decadente e serrará todas as cruzes e devolverá a sacralidade às curvas da natureza. Meu menino deus ao manipular livros salvará a si antes dos velhos, meu menino deus saberá a hora de me enterrar embaixo do fogo! E rezará pelas cachoeiras, pelas matas, mares e águas todas do por aí. Meu menino deus terá saudade de futuro...
The construction of the church in Kyjatice dates back to the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century. Like the surrounding villages, Kyjatice adopted ideas of the Reformation: we know the names of evangelical pastors working here since the 1620s. With a short break during the re-Catholicization, the Kyjatice Church has always been and still is Lutheran. This originally fortified Romanesque-Gothic single-nave church with a square chancel, an eastern tower and a northern sacristy, hides rare murals. The fresco decoration of the church comes from two stages – from the end of the 14th (chancel, triumphal arch) and the first half of the 15th century (north wall of the nave).
After the adoption of the Reformation, the murals were whitewashed, but discovered in 1894 (by István Groh) and repainted. Their discovery and restoration took place in the 1980s, when a comprehensive research of the church took place. We find scenes of apostles, several saints and prophets in medallions, the figures of wise and obscure virgins on the triumphal arch lining. On the triumphal arch, we find scenes from the life of Christ – the kiss of Judas, Christ before Pilate, Carrying the Cross, the Crucifixion and Lamentation of Christ (Pietà). The nave is dominated on the northern wall by a unique depiction of the Last Judgment in the form of a large circle, centered on Jesus in the almond tree. On the fresco, Jesus judges the living and the dead, rising from the graves, and dividing them into righteous and condemned. The nine fields of the circle represent the onset of nine distinctive angelic choirs and crowds of the victorious church. The painting is reminiscent of illustrations in the manuscripts of St. Hildegard of Bingen. The painting is dated to the year 1486. In addition to frescoes, the Gothic is also represented by a southern late Gothic portal and doors and a simple portal to the sacristy. The wooden coffered ceiling with Renaissance floral ornaments dates from 1637, from the times when the church was used by the Lutherans (similar to other wooden furniture – the western tribune or the so called patronage bench). On the ceiling, there are also the names of the masters: Lazar Galko and Jakub Stephanik, the mayor. The simple stone baptismal font is probably from the 13th century. The Renaissance altar from 1678 fills the entire façade of the chancel. The sculptures of the three apostles have a central position, with Jesus Christ and two angels in the extension. The richly carved wooden baroque pulpit dates from the first third of the 18th century.
Brussels, Belgium
Saint Catherine's Church on the background of the city skyline. Closed due to lack of faithful, after desacralisation planned to be converted into a fruit and vegetables market.
Lamayuru - Ladakh - West-Tibet - India
This is the photo in the monk's hand:
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Curiosity: Last day I was in this house. It was a dead and funeral ceremony. I gave as gift family some Dalai Lama photo.
Next day I walked in the street. The monk come out of the house and showed me this pic. He couldn't knew, that is my photo. He was very proud for the HHDL pic. I told him, this pic is my work. The monk smiled, and told me thanks, and blessed me. :-)
The landmark of the old mining village with interesting spindle-shaped urbanism is the Lutheran Church located on a low hill at the upper end of the village called Koceľovce. The church is an almost intactly preserved Gothic building from the first half of the 14th century, originally dedicated to St. Bartholomew.
The single-nave space with a polygonal chancel, a sacristy on the north side and a high tower on a square plan in the west, which turns into an octogon on the upper floors, is covered by a high gabled roof with shingles. The roofing of the tower, with an atypical metal Art Nouveau helmet, dates from the beginning of the 20th century. The nave is vaulted with classicist Theresian vaults instead of the original beamed ceiling, which is stylishly followed by an equally vaulted brick porch. During the last third of the 14th century, the polygonal chancel was built and vaulted with a cross rib vault. The stylistic purity of the church is emphasized by high windows divided by profiled bars and tracery and a system of supporting pillars of the chancel. The current southern entrance to the church was opened during the restoration in the 2nd half of the 18th century, it is closed by a Gothic door with decorative fittings, which were transferred here from the original entrance portal in the tower. Another Gothic door with rich wrought iron decoration is in the portal to the sacristy. This interesting wrought iron door also became the logo of the church.
The Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church was built between 1826 and 1829 for the Russian soldiers of the choir of the Russian colony of Alexandrowka. It is the oldest Russian Orthodox church building in Western Europe, modeled on Old Russian architecture, and an example of early Russian historicism. As part of the Alexandrowka colony, the church has been under UNESCO protection since 1999 as part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin World Heritage Site.
Wat Rong Suea Ten
The Blue Temple of Chiang Rai /
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