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*** Mini-Challenge #501 *** Houses of Worship
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JayRaym
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the photo is nothing special but the location "interesting": the official site of the baptism of Jesus Christ in Bethany beyond the Jordan
a few hundred meters away, on your left, catholic church, in the middle, greek orthodox church and on the right coptic church
a few hundred meters away, on your left, catholic church, in the middle, greek orthodox church and on the right coptic church
mike geier
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Fatima
Montserrat
Barcelona
snappyden
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Mike,
Fatima
Montserrat
Barcelona
Nice images, and I think that's the first time I've ever seen an image of a church in Barcelona other than the spectacular Sagrada Familia.
Best,
Den
nannyg
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The Sacre Coeur is instantly recognizable! Nice contrast with the sky and stone.
Paris - Sacre Couer
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nannyg
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I love the stairway! I wonder what it would look like in B&W. I have been fortunate enough to see many cathedrals in Europe and I pretty much expect to see scaffolding somewhere on every one. One wonders if the process of renovation or cleaning stonework will ever actually end. Maybe now that we don't heat houses with coal, the grime might take longer to accumulate?The great front door is undergoing hugely impressive stonework restoration and refurbishment as the next shot shows.
Entry 2: How do you work stone to this level of delicacy?
The scale of the cathedral is enormous and the stonework everywhere simply stunning. The sets of stairs in the next image blow me away. They go up to the library and higher still to some priests' workrooms...
Entry 3: Stairway to...?
Thanks for the great Images, EdIn the cathedral at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk a tower was added at the recent millennium, but it is a stone-clad structural steel construction, and is much too flimsy to support a fan vault ceiling of stone, so the only wooden fan vault ever erected was commissioned. My son designed it and it was constructed and installed by his colleagues at a company called Taylormade Interiors. The area below the ceiling is a sacred space, so taking complete images of the ceiling is near impossible, but here it is...
Exhibit 1: The fan vault ceiling in Bury St Edmunds cathedral. It's oak and weighs 6 tonnes. The stone equivalent would be closer to 60 tonnes.
Now an image of the ceiling being assembled in the Taylormade Interiors factory to check fit and finish and structural integrity...
Exhibit 2: part erected ceiling - Rob, my son took this photograph.
And finally on this theme, a small section of the ceiling of Kings College Chapel in Cambridge to show what the decorative motif of the Bury St Edmunds ceiling was modelled after...
Exhibit 3: Fleur de Lys motif in Kings College Chapel - another of Rob's images. He did countless research trips to gothic cathedrals and churches.
Finally, just to show that cathedrals are often places of whimsy; the baptismal font in Norwich Cathedral...
Exhibit 4: The font at Norwich - it was once a spherical copper vessel for making chocolate - Norwich was famous for chocolate manufacture. Equally whimsical, the cathedral ceiling has dozens of carved faces and groups of faces at the junctions between its ribs, all of which are known to be people involved in the building of the place - some of them are very obviously scurrilous cartoons.
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nannyg
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Interesting artwork there, particularly on the dome. The way that the figures float in a sea of white without borders and over the colorful windows is quite pleasant.
... special kind of angel ...
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nannyg
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nannyg
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And all three sporting the cross on top, making one wonder why people who follow the same ancient text feel the need to subdivide into factions.the photo is nothing special but the location "interesting": the official site of the baptism of Jesus Christ in Bethany beyond the Jordan
a few hundred meters away, on your left, catholic church, in the middle, greek orthodox church and on the right coptic church
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nannyg
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Trafford2
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I have a feeling we went through the pagoda like building gate to a monastery -It's hard to tell how the tower connects to what is behind it. Is that the facade of the church or more of an elaborate entry gate to a compound?
KIEV Churches and tourists
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it was the first day of the trip from San Francisco to Kiev via Munich - from Kiev
to the Black Sea on a river boat to Odessa and the Crimea with the finish in Bulgaria, Roumania and Istanbul.
edform
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I love the stairway! I wonder what it would look like in B&W...
Entry 3: Stairway to...?
Another Exhibit: Isn't digital photography wonderful?
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GpnAZ
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This subject is near and dear to my heart, I have a dedicated Flickr page devoted to Churches, www.flickr.com/photos/his_cross . Everywhere I travel I take pictures of the local churches in that area and I will sometimes dedicate a photo trip just for photographing churches. I like to photograph everything from small out of the way churches out in the country to big city cathedrals. I'm not always able to photograph in ideal lighting conditions but will photograph them anyways.
St. Jerome Catholic Church, Taos Pueblo New Mexico
St. Augustine Cathedral, Tucson Arizona
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church (Old Adobe Mission), Old Town Scottsdale Arizona
Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara California
The Chapel of All Saints, San Luis Colorado (Entry)
St. Annes Catholic Church, Bena Minnesota
Mission Concepcion, San Antonio Texas (Entry)
St. Paul's Catholic Church, Portsmouth Virginia (Entry)
Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona Arizona
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St. Jerome Catholic Church, Taos Pueblo New Mexico
St. Augustine Cathedral, Tucson Arizona
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church (Old Adobe Mission), Old Town Scottsdale Arizona
Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara California
The Chapel of All Saints, San Luis Colorado (Entry)
St. Annes Catholic Church, Bena Minnesota
Mission Concepcion, San Antonio Texas (Entry)
St. Paul's Catholic Church, Portsmouth Virginia (Entry)
Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona Arizona
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nannyg
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What a wonderful, varied collection of images & styles and settings! Would you consider submitting any of these as entries? If so, which ones?
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GpnAZ
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I wrote (Entry) on 3 of them in the description under the picture and thank you for your kind comments!
nannyg
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Birddogman
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These are all exhibits, because none of them is good enough to be an entry. Being non-religious, I don't tend to photograph houses of worship very often. Here in rural PA Dutchland, structures that are houses of worship are not often recognized as such. VERY different than the rich churches of Europe.
Yes, we have regular country churches on hilltops here and there - mostly pretty old:
But, especially among the "plain" sects, churches are more difficult to recognize. The Shakers worship in their communal buildings that date back to the mid-1700's:
Interior view. The small wooden block in the corner is a "pillow" as these boards are used as beds at night.
The Quakers have "meeting houses" and, if you've every attended a Quaker meeting (service), it's hard to recognize it as a religious event - as different as day is to night from the elaborate European religious traditions. This is an active Quaker meeting house from the mid-1700's very near to my home on a day when the heavy mist over the fields was turned an amazing color when backlit by the low morning sun (the color is not Photoshopped). Inside is a bare stone room with rows of plain wooden benches with no backrests- nothing else. No electricity - the outhouses are in the back - water supplied by the pump.
In the early days, many folks didn't travel from their farms. People were born, lived out their lives and died on the farms. This is a family graveyard way out in the middle of the fields - you can only see it and get to it in winter when the crops have been taken off. Many of these old places have been simply plowed under in modern times and are gone forever. Some of my ancestors reside here under stones carved in German. The small stones are for young children. It is a lonely place of worship of sorts, albeit not a house of worship.
Finally, Bethel Church - an active Mennonite church on the back side of "my" mountain - circa about 1800. Note the wooden shed on the right for horses and buggies.
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Yes, we have regular country churches on hilltops here and there - mostly pretty old:
But, especially among the "plain" sects, churches are more difficult to recognize. The Shakers worship in their communal buildings that date back to the mid-1700's:
Interior view. The small wooden block in the corner is a "pillow" as these boards are used as beds at night.
The Quakers have "meeting houses" and, if you've every attended a Quaker meeting (service), it's hard to recognize it as a religious event - as different as day is to night from the elaborate European religious traditions. This is an active Quaker meeting house from the mid-1700's very near to my home on a day when the heavy mist over the fields was turned an amazing color when backlit by the low morning sun (the color is not Photoshopped). Inside is a bare stone room with rows of plain wooden benches with no backrests- nothing else. No electricity - the outhouses are in the back - water supplied by the pump.
In the early days, many folks didn't travel from their farms. People were born, lived out their lives and died on the farms. This is a family graveyard way out in the middle of the fields - you can only see it and get to it in winter when the crops have been taken off. Many of these old places have been simply plowed under in modern times and are gone forever. Some of my ancestors reside here under stones carved in German. The small stones are for young children. It is a lonely place of worship of sorts, albeit not a house of worship.
Finally, Bethel Church - an active Mennonite church on the back side of "my" mountain - circa about 1800. Note the wooden shed on the right for horses and buggies.
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nannyg
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These are all exhibits, because none of them is good enough to be an entry. Being non-religious, I don't tend to photograph houses of worship very often. Here in rural PA Dutchland, structures that are houses of worship are not often recognized as such. VERY different than the rich churches of Europe.
Yes, we have regular country churches on hilltops here and there - mostly pretty old:
But, especially among the "plain" sects, churches are more difficult to recognize. The Shakers worship in their communal buildings that date back to the mid-1700's:
Interior view. The small wooden block in the corner is a "pillow" as these boards are used as beds at night.
The Quakers have "meeting houses" and, if you've every attended a Quaker meeting (service), it's hard to recognize it as a religious event - as different as day is to night from the elaborate European religious traditions. This is an active Quaker meeting house from the mid-1700's very near to my home on a day when the heavy mist over the fields was turned an amazing color when backlit by the low morning sun (the color is not Photoshopped). Inside is a bare stone room with rows of plain wooden benches with no backrests- nothing else. No electricity - the outhouses are in the back - water supplied by the pump.
In the early days, many folks didn't travel from their farms. People were born, lived out their lives and died on the farms. This is a family graveyard way out in the middle of the fields - you can only see it and get to it in winter when the crops have been taken off. Many of these old places have been simply plowed under in modern times and are gone forever. Some of my ancestors reside here under stones carved in German. The small stones are for young children. It is a lonely place of worship of sorts, albeit not a house of worship.
You are too modest, Greg. These photos are evocative and show another of the many styles of houses of worship that would probably be absent from our collection without your contribution. I think our (as in most people, but not you) general lack of awareness of the Quaker traditions (and perhaps other "quiet" religions) is a great loss. Much could be learned and appreciated if we looked a little deeper and learned more.
The meeting house in the mist is a particularly nice photo that I wish was an entry...
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Holy Cross Catholic Church, Marine City, Michigan
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rjbSony
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Three different churches here in various parts of the UK:
St Breward,Cornwall - some of you may remember this one from the 'unusual compositions' mini-challenge (#489)
Further north:
Combrook,Warwickshire
And lastly,an interior:
Butlers Marston,Warwickshire
None of these are particularly local to me - couldn't think of any other pics off the top of my head.But anyway...there you are,3 entries.
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St Breward,Cornwall - some of you may remember this one from the 'unusual compositions' mini-challenge (#489)
Further north:
Combrook,Warwickshire
And lastly,an interior:
Butlers Marston,Warwickshire
None of these are particularly local to me - couldn't think of any other pics off the top of my head.But anyway...there you are,3 entries.
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