This is an odd church if that is what it really is. First it is tiny, and second it is open to the elements on two sides. They heat it, as you can see below, by open fire. While it calls itself a "church" there are also no crosses or religious decorations or carvings, thus … Continue reading Open church in Finland
This church is located on a hill in Mauer, on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria. It is the brainchild of sculptor Fritz Wotruba’s life the project’s architect, Fritz G. Mayr, is often forgotten, and was constructed in the mid-1970s. Mayr completed the project a year after Wotruba’s death, enlarging the artist’s clay model to create a functional walk-in concrete sculpture., … Continue reading Brutalism and the Church
These stained glass windows were created expressly for the exhibition ‘art in the streets. ’ They were completed with students from the city of angels public school in los angeles. The artist erected panels in the schoolyard and requested that they be tagged for source material. The resulting boards were placed behind a medieval silhouette, … Continue reading Stained Glass windows at MOCA
all images by alessandra chemollo These are the first photographs from the 16th international architecture exhibition of the ‘asplund chapel’, designed by MAP studio and built by ALPI. It was conceived as a prelude to the exhibition. The structure displays Asplund’s architectural drawings for the original woodland chapel — located at skogskyrkogården cemetery in Sweden, south of Stockholm. The chapel measures 33 square meters, … Continue reading Wooden Church “the asplund chapel”
‘rafmögnuð náttúra’ by marcos zotes and thessia machado image by jón oskar hauksson ‘rafmögnuð náttúra’ by marcos zotes and chris jordan. image by kristjan söebeck ‘rafmögnuð náttúra’ by marcos zotes and coco karol image by jón oskar hauksson ‘rafmögnuð náttúra’ by marcos zotes image by ragnar th sigurðsson ‘rafmögnuð náttúra’ by marcos … Continue reading Icelandic Church on lights
Eleni Sakellis August 15, 2017 The Panagia and Christ Child icon. Photo by Eleni Sakellis NEW YORK – The Kimisis tis Theotokou or the Dormition of the Theotokos on August 15, is also known as the Pascha of Summer, celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, when the Holy Mother of Jesus Christ and therefore, the … Continue reading Kimisis August 15th
The UK firm Steyn Studio has completed the design of a chapel in South Africa’s western cape province. set within a vineyard, the building’s sculptural form mirrors the outline of the surrounding mountain ranges, while simultaneously referencing the region’s distinctive cape dutch architecture. noticeably designed without a traditional spire, the roof canopy has been constructed … Continue reading Lovely church in So. Africa
The New York Times reported back in August that the RC Church, Our Lady of Loreto in Brooklyn will be closed. No surprise there as the RC church is looking to downsize in their stronghold of American cities, as Roman Catholics have fled the cities following the Protestants forty years earlier. What's sad is the … Continue reading Our Lady of Loreto in Brooklyn
St John the Baptist, his name day is today.Across the street, I guess sorta diagonally, is the Russian Byzantine Catholic Church. If that designation is unfamiliar to you, then you must not live in Pennsylvania. All of their churches are listed as located in this state, and it is one of the largest reasons that despite … Continue reading Churches: Russian Byzantine Catholic
Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic. It is on the southeast coast of the island of Hispaniola, at the mouth of the Ozama River.It is also the oldest permanent city established by Europeans in the Western Hemisphere & the seat of the oldest Roman Catholic archbishopric in the Americas.It was founded in … Continue reading Churches: Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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