Favorite Church, Mosque, Cathedral and such

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― anthony, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chesterfield's very own "crooked" spire.

The spire of Mary and all saints church in Chesterfield is in fact twisted, and it rocks, literally.

― chris, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oo yeah, coach and train journeys to Sheffield were always brightened up by the sight of Chesterfield spire (plus it meant I was nearly there, heh - similarly the red light on Salisbury spire meant we were about halfway between my grandparents' house and home and could therefore celebrate soon by stopping off at a pub on the outskirts). And by coach it was especially good because at about the same time as it came into view you'd drive past a street called Halcyon Approach, which I reckon is a quality road name.

Faringdon church isn't especially classic, but it is spireless because of an own goal in the civil war. Oops! The cannonball responsible is on display in a glass case inside.

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't there a Temple of Omar in Jerusalem? That one of course. :) Serious there's one cathedral in Spain, I forgot where, somewhere in Rioja IIRC, which has an excellent altar where a live chicken lives. Amazing, something to do with a local legend where said chicken played an important role. Though I suspect they had a tape running with chicken sounds because the real one couldn't be arsed to make sound 24/7.

― Omar, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suppose I ought to say Winchester, what with living here and stuff, but it's merely alright, and spoiled by the stoners who practically live in the grounds outside. So, St. Paul's.

― Bill, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wimborne Minster. It's got a weird tin soldier type thing stuck on the side who waggles his arms when the bells ring. It's very nice inside as well.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Milan duomo, and some of them Hawksmoor churches round London...

― Mark Morris, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there was a cavernous whitewashed catholic church in Goa. it was empty and mercifully cool after the heat outside. pigeons were flying in and out of the organ pipes. it was so very, very peaceful.

it may have been called St Cecilia's, but she's the saint of music, right? (catholics...?) so maybe that's not right.

― katie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmmm, Santo Spirito in Florence. The outside is so plain and it looks fantastic against a clear blue sky. The interior is breathtaking in a different way - you walk in the door and it goes straight up and straight along with perfectly proportioned columns and arches. Very nice cafe outside, too. Restoration currently being sponsored by Gucci, believe it or not.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the recordstore is my church. the clerk is the sadistic priest who will not listen to my confession. the other people in the store are my opponents. i have to be swift in snatching the bible, oops, cd away from them.

― Helen Fordsdale, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is totally bananas. And they've got the weirdest fountain you've ever seen out back (it includes a life-size giraffe being eaten by giant clam, so...) Also the V & T Pizza place is right around the corner. The one service I attended was pretty... mmm... Episcopalian for me, but the incense and brandy made up for it.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one across the street from my work. I just like it cos I feel bad for it, I mean a TRUCK drove into it once. How did it miss a CHURCH?

― Ally, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's a CATHEDRAL, dude.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How do you know whether or not the church across my street is a church or a cathedral?

― Ally, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For sheer enclosure of space, the Girona Cathedral is incredible, very dark and strangely empty. I love the segrada familia in barcelona, so organic, tendrils shooting up to heaven, it'll be amazing when its finished. Westmiinster abbey holds a special place for me since for 5 years I had to go there three times a week, I love the oscar wilde window, put in during my time there, and poets corner in general. Statesmen's corner is not nearly so much fun to sit in. The Duomo in Milan is a filagree gothic masterpiece. I forget the name of the church in arezzo with the wonderful frescos of the story of the true cross, but that's my favorite befrescied italian church.

When I used to come off at junction 29 the twisted spire of chesterfield always marked the nearly home point. Junction 33 isn't nearly as good, but it gets me home quicker.

to my shame I have never been inside a synagogue or mosque

― Ed, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can't say I'm familiar with "classically" designed mosques, but the interiors of Skidmore's Islamic Cultural Center of New York -- WOW.

― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Sikh temple an hour outside edmonton. All White enamel with cerulen details . It has 9 domes . It is on the crest of a hill and when you drive it appears on the crest of this buff. It is so lovley .

― anthony, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A cathedral has a bishop

― anthony, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A cathedral needs to be designed in certain ways, I forget any of that but they tried to teach us in school once. Favorite one is a Greek Orthodox on just north of Toronto that the Catholic church bought out basically. Its on a hill just west of Highway 404, about three flights up from the parking lot, the mosiac behind the alter (I forget what its called) is done in gold and so is just about everything they could get their hands on.

There is another church surrounded by the Eaton Center in Toronto where they recorded Cowboy Junkies Trinty Sessions. Only other one I can think of is Saint Joesph's in Montreal at the foot of Mount Royal.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like any church with free soft batch cookies

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The stairs of La Sagrada Familia always creep me out. No, entering the towers creep me out period like they're almost designed for willing people to throw themselves off.

Anyway, Cathedral of Salamanca has an amazing detail on one of the entrances, along side all the usual saints and demons they sculpted a little astronaut! It rocks.

― Omar, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah the Sagrada Familia had a strange effect on me too, I've never been that scared of heights or had vertigo or whatever but walking round there I was clinging to the walls for dear life, beautiful place though, apart from the (understandable as it's still being built) scaffolding.

The Hindu temple in Neasden, Noth west London is pretty amazing too.

― chris, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crystal Cathedral, which I think is in Garden Grove, Orange County. I used to be able to cycle to it when I was staying with mates out there. It's so unbelievably over the top, like the Ice Palace or whatever it's called in Superman... but it does still feel somehow spiritual inside. Also it has a cameo in a Simpsons episode.

― Andrew Williams, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, Andrew, come back out to OC and you can see many more wonders...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

http://static.flickr.com/4/4205917_2bd54e2377_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/4/4404460_62909b1ef7_o.jpg

care to guess, where these might be?

― -- (688), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

the 2nd should be fairly easy

― -- (688), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Standing under the cathedral in Strasbourg, France on a foggy night last November was awe-inspiring.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

you really couldn't guess them?

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well it says Chapel of the Bells - Weddings Reno Since 1963 on that first on, so it is kind of silly to ask where it is.

Tampere Cathedral is the second.

― svend (svend), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

indeed it does, i think i'd forgotten it said that

both answers are of course correct

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

here is a little church in las vegas i found on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/380080813/

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take a picture of the little tin church down the road from me later if I remember. In the meantime please enjoy this. Rather lovely in all ways and when I visited on a little oasis of calm in the midst of wind and rain.
http://homepage.mac.com/steveja/Scotland/Orkneys/pictures/img_0390.jpg

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.provenceweb.fr/grafiq/villes06/stcezaire/eglise3.jpg

Otherwise unremarkable but excellent for assignations and trysts.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://p.vtourist.com/1693016-Cathedral_of_Cologne-Cologne.jpg

― YAAAAAOW! (Brian Miller), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/objects-2005/img/altar-th.jpg

― YAAAAAOW! (Brian Miller), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there a Temple of Omar in Jerusalem?

I keep getting confused between the Dome of the Rock, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of which is also the Mosque of Omar. The Golden Dome Mosque (not its real name) is spectacularly beautiful.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Pantheon in Rome or Santa Croce in Florence.

Pantheon: Simple and awe inspiring. Really monumental and just so beautiful.
Santa Croce: Fantastic piazza in front, vast interior and wonderful cloister. I really feel relaxed and able to think about things there even when it's packed with tourists. I'll be back there in September and can't wait to spend an hour or so. Also it's Fransiscan which is a big point in it's favour!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/380677867_98d8b4a33f.jpg?v=0

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love these prefab churchs. There used to a load in the UK but slowly over the yaers they've fallen down/been demolished. They were mostly supposed to be temporary anyway. This one is still in use - indeed there was some kind of coffee meeting going on when I took the pic.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Whole load of info on them here.
http://www.corrugated-iron-club.info/tintab.html

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Santa Sophia thing in Istanbul is great too. The addition of minarets and its conversion into a museum makes it a wonderful temple to Christ, Allah, and SECULARISM.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.brigish.com/wazee/ethiopia/Pa172238.jpg

And also my local, right across the street:

http://ship-of-fools.com/Mystery/2001/Pics/StJohnDivineNYC.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://lapin-bleu.net/pictures/20020831-Spain/img_0925-large.jpg
http://www.ou.edu/class/arch4443/California%20Contributions/Christian%20Science%20Church.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://arted.osu.edu/160/images/artworks/mr_chapel.gif

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad it's not just me who gets freaked out in La Sagrada Familia. I love it, though.

Also, Ned Trifle nicked my answer, i.e. the Italian Chapel on the Orkney Islands.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/4/4.615/images/3/1007.jpeg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4702/shzmoawu1ab.jpg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

the great mosque of samarra, early mosque, north of baghdad, extremely influential in islamic architecture, minimal, striking even in its current state of disrepair

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

also, incredibly large

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

and a carbon copy of my future home

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

a modern-style eastern orthodox church (holy trinity in stroudsburg, PA):

http://www.svots.edu/Press-Releases/2005-0410-chorale/images/AP4100000_jpg.jpg

a more traditional one (in manville, NJ), which some of my relatives still attend:

http://orthodoxwiki.org/images/9/95/Ss_Peter_and_Paul_Church.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://orthodoxwiki.org/images/9/95/Ss_Peter_and_Paul_Church.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://orthodoxwiki.org/images/9/95/Ss_Peter_and_Paul_Church.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

ps can someone end the iraq violence so i can move there

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

this one should work:

http://www.oca.org/Images/Directory/photos/oca-wa-manspp.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

a monastery -- as opposed to a church -- on the sinai peninsula:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Katharinenkloster.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/362997847_b3251c9f90_b.jpg

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Eisbär I was there: St. Catherine's Monastery. There's preserved monks and things. V traumatic (and v cool) for a young un!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

My uncles: http://www.saintmichaelsbarbados.com/

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Watts Chapel

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/54657324_f75002f409.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/362236652_47ceec5d51.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/197423537_c5fe4478c0.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/77/197423839_6a5f42a210.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/347131247_d12737242a_m.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/347131270_8e1b681179_m.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

ALl those pics are blocked, RJG. What were they pictures of?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

i like the 2nd pair of pics

― Friendly Tree (688), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

whoops

first is the hagia sophia church/mosque one in istanbul, second is a church in minnesota designed by marcel breuer, the last one is the church of light or something in japan designed by tadao ando

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://crusades.boisestate.edu/pics/Constantinople/Hagia%20Sophia%20west%20view.jpg
hagia

http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/postcards/photos/abchurext.jpg
breuer

http://www.govashir.com/greatdesigners/church.jpg
ando

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://grant.org/plewins/india2000/Delhi/BahaiTemple.JPG

The Baha'i temple in Delhi.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/postcards/photos/abchurext.jpg http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/images/070201devices.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Lincoln Cathedral

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Eisbär I was there: St. Catherine's Monastery. There's preserved monks and things. V traumatic (and v cool) for a young un!

wow, i really envy you -- i've wanted to visit the place since i first read about it 3 years ago.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fairlieburne.co.uk/AuldKirk.jpg
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stmonans/parishchurch/images/fromshore.jpg

St Monans Parish Church is my favourite church, old and austere and also right next to the sea. The geometric architecture makes me think of all the stuff about spooky angles in Lovecraft, it could be a temple of Dagon or something. St Monans is actually quite an Innsmouth-like place.

― Jawbone (Jawbone), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

can't really see, but it's the way the sun falls on the pyramidal tower that made me think of Lovecraft, also the second image was meant to be http://www.inverie.com/images/St%20Monans%20Church_small.jpg

― Jawbone (Jawbone), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://k41.pbase.com/u38/bmcmorrow/upload/24902076.08_06acopy1.JPG

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Newark Priory
http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/images/html/aerials_UK_regions/south_east_england/surrey/images/AWDS_abbey02.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Phil Cool is playing Newark tomorrow night. Thread connections!

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

What's that first pic of gabbnebs?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait - it's Breuer church - sorry didn't look upthread! Fantastic.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

The Jain temple in Leicester - made from an old Congregational church.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/140832388_895fc258eb.jpg
The interior is what makes it super special though and you can see them here...
http://www.jaincentre.com/temple.htm

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Went to All Saints in Tudeley to see the Chagall windows.

https://i.postimg.cc/vZ2kdKHd/1-C2-B1484-5-E52-4583-A371-B82-B08-EB17-E0.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/mggJJ44w/8-FE5385-F-009-F-4693-96-AA-1-A7-E99-F0683-C.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/3RmcmJjK/A972-A240-2-F43-46-E7-8-DE1-820-B9-EC8-BEC6.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/yNwGDSZQ/AF37-FE90-5-E3-E-49-FE-AFAF-E1-A2-C2-EC5-A8-D.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/wTVnwvCM/BD4488-AB-2397-4-A02-8600-33-D2-F02-DB0-D6.jpg

Honestly the pictures do them zero justice, the light through the windows is incredible.

― gyac, Friday, 24 June 2022 09:23 (three years ago)

Those are extraordinary, yes - they look like particularly timeless children's book illustrations. Except luminous

― imago, Friday, 24 June 2022 09:25 (three years ago)

Oh you should go see them in person - luminous doesn’t even touch how they look when the sun shines through them.

― gyac, Friday, 24 June 2022 09:39 (three years ago)

It's also near an RSPB reserve! Pencilled in for some point...

― imago, Friday, 24 June 2022 09:45 (three years ago)

two months pass...

oooh, wish I knew about that Tudeley church. was in very nearby Hever just last weekend visiting the castle.

but came here to post about another highlight of that short UK/London holiday: St. Paul’s Cathedral. magnificent interior, it almost moved me to tears and (non-christian) prayer. highly conducive circumstances probably: happened to arrive there at the start of Evensong service, choir included.

Westminster Abbey also fantastic in its own very different way

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:14 (three years ago)

*wish I had known

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:15 (three years ago)

other churches I have loved during recent(ish) travels:

Kollegienkirche Salzburg:
very early 18th-century baroque church with all-white interior with numerous sky holes in the ceiling providing an (ideally) blue outlook to/inlook from the sky/heavens

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Kollegienkirche_salzburg_hochaltar1.jpg

(best picture I could find, but it doesn’t nearly do it as much justice as the pictures I took myself unfortunately)

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:20 (three years ago)

Lisbon's sombre 13th-century Igreja de São Domingos, which has sunken seats and feels like it was built inside a cave, although it dates from the 13th century and has been destroyed and rebuilt several times since:

https://visitar.lisboa.pt/fileadmin/espacos/imagens/igreja_sao_domingos_3.jpg

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 19:03 (three years ago)

Was listening to Sunn O)))'s Dømkirke live album this morning and realized I'd been to the church where it was recorded (it's in Bergen, Norway) a little over a decade later.

(I don't know if the images will load or not; if they don't, here's the link.)

https://en.visitbergen.com/imageresizer/?image=%2Fdmsimgs%2F1D61B4FD95306CD35ABE9397DCDFA23C0A2F76F3.jpg&action=ProductDetailExtraLargeNew

https://en.visitbergen.com/imageresizer/?image=%2Fdmsimgs%2FC6996DF86BA76074E772565C02E8569A57E36D55.jpg&action=ProductDetailExtraLargeNew

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 15 September 2022 19:13 (three years ago)

the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias in Granada with its impossibly ornate interior:

https://horariodemisas-aa.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/basilica-de-nuestra-senora-de-las-angustias-granada.jpg

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 19:23 (three years ago)

…but the most impressive/overwhelming/majestic/outright *magical* religious building of all must surely be, and it has indeed been mentioned several times upthread, the Hagia Sophia / Ayasofya in Istanbul.

again, it’s all about the interior. the space of it is incredible, and the mosaics and other decorations in the galleries are so alive that it makes you feel directly connected to a time thousand years ago or more - something I’ve not experienced anywhere else.

strangely I don’t remember much of my first visit in the early 1980s, back then it was the adjacent Sultan Ahmet Camii (Blue Mosque) that left an indelible impression, but when I visited both of them again in 2015, it was the other way around - and then some.

it’s to be hoped that Erdoğan’s decision to annul its museum status and revert it to a mosque won’t cause too much damage to the building.

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 19:49 (three years ago)

three years pass...

Remarkably unattractive church I visited in Bern today.

https://i.postimg.cc/JzPJ2XYF/D7A218C3-6443-422E-8172-BB863AA98DAC.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/BvbD9vRV/82B5BB63-4945-48C7-85E4-F9F82DE28D43.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/JzPJ2XYF/D7A218C3-6443-422E-8172-BB863AA98DAC.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/vmT9FmC2/C294F229-D4F0-43F1-9A4A-BD0F15099560.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/MGHR2GgD/72EFD1FD-306E-489F-9419-27AF12026DFF.jpg

― colonic interrogation (gyac), Friday, 24 October 2025 10:56 (four months ago)

This should have been the third one,sorry:

https://i.postimg.cc/TP1mMPBs/0AE249D5-2B2F-4A4D-AE3B-69599A7B80DE.jpg

― colonic interrogation (gyac), Friday, 24 October 2025 10:59 (four months ago)

I really think the Russians get it. Saviour on Spilled Blood and St. Basil are undeniable

― H.P, Friday, 24 October 2025 11:02 (four months ago)

Xp otm tho that church sucks

― H.P, Friday, 24 October 2025 11:03 (four months ago)

Helsinki might have the best concentration+diversity of beautiful Churches. Parliamentary neoclasical Helsinki Cathedral to literal carved rock Temppeliaukio Church to the Beautiful amalgamation of slavic and greek orthodox architecture in Uspenski Cathedral to the Gothic St. Johns to the minimalistic Kamppi Chapel

― H.P, Friday, 24 October 2025 11:12 (four months ago)

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