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Churches, Mosques and other religious buildings from around the world. |
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 | Seahenge is a Bronze Age timber circle at Holme-next-the-Sea that was discovered in 1998 because the sea had washed the sand away that covered the minument.
This is just a reconstruction. |  | 07/20/2008 | 484 | 
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 | Holy Mass preparation on St. Peter Square in the Vatican |  | 07/12/2008 | 103 |
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 | Big Gompa in Sichuan mountains.
3945m. | | 06/19/2008 | 200 |
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 | This is an update to the first LDS (Mormon)meetinghouse map I posted here about 2 months ago. The first version of the map only showed the US and Canada; in this latest version, thousands of meetinghouses in dozens of countries can be seen, including most of the US and Canada, the UK, Scandinavia and Western Europe, Japan and Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, and most of the South Pacific, plu... | | 06/03/2008 | 1,634 |
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 | This is apparantly the largest mosque |  | 05/27/2008 | 106 |
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 | The Agadez Grand Mosque was originally built in the year 1515 but was restored in the year 1844, keeping the old form intact. It is a great spot of sightseeing in Agadez. | | 04/19/2008 | 98 |
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 | Hello fellow geography lovers!
For those of you who love geography and are interested in the building activities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I have created a KMZ file that may interest you. The church is also known as the LDS Church, or the Mormon Church. My file is a visual representation of almost all of the meetinghouses in the USA and Canada of the LDS... |  | 04/13/2008 | 201 |
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 | Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn) was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on May 9, 1131. Situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire, it was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales. It is one of the most spectacular ruins in the country and inspired the William Wordsworth poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey", more than one ... | | 04/05/2008 | 92 |
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 | Neath Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located near the present-day town of Neath in southern Wales. It was once the largest abbey in Wales. Substantial ruins can still be seen, and are in the care of Cadw. Tudor historian John Leland called Neath Abbey "the fairest abbey of all Wales."
Neath Abbey was established in 1129 AD when Sir Richard de Granville gave 8000 acre... | | 04/05/2008 | 75 |
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 | Strata Florida Abbey (in Welsh: Abaty Ystrad Fflur) is a former Cistercian abbey situated just outside Pontrhydfendigaid, near Tregaron in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
Lying mostly in ruins, there is a variety of remains in the area. The Abbey Church monument is in the care of Cadw. Next to the remains of the church is the graveyard, which is still active to this day, with ma... | | 04/05/2008 | 93 |
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 | When James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, died 1576 or 1578 in his cell on nearby Dragsholm Castle he was layed to rest in a chapel underneath Faarevejle church.
From 1949 he got his final resting place in a new chapel. He was showed laying in his coffin covered by glas. 1976 the coffin was closed but photos were taken and are on display on the wall. On display is also his coat of arms. | | 04/05/2008 | 82 |
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 | Antvorskov was the principal monastery for the order of Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, located in the current town of Slagelse on Zealand, Denmark.
It was founded in 1165 by Valdemar the Great. Hans Tausen, who is credited as being a leading catalyst for the Danish Reformation, lived at the monastery and gave a sermon in 1525 that launched the reformation.
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 | THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
for more info plz visit
http://egypt-monasteries.info
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 | The church of Ledoje is the only one of this kind in Denmark. It's in two storeys. On the lower storey the normal people were and the squire and family from a manor that once was next to the tower attended the service.
The church is from around 1225, the tower around 1500.
The Kaiserpfalz in Goslar, Germany, was used as model for the church.
(From Le... | | 03/29/2008 | 49 |
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 | The Church of Holmen (Danish: Holmens Kirke) is a church in central Copenhagen in Denmark, on the street called Holmens Kanal. It is a military church famous for having hosted the wedding between crown princess Margrethe (the current queen of Denmark) and prince Henrik in 1967.
It is the burial site of such notabilities as naval heroes Niels Juel and Peter Tordenskjold, and comp... | | 03/28/2008 | 49 |
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 | The church of the Moravian Congregation in Christiansfeld today has around 400 members.
The church, erected in 1777, has Denmark's largest room without supporting pillars with space for 1000 people. It underwent a thorough restoration as well as a reconstruction of the original steeple in 1973, financed by a l.2 mill. D.kr. grant from the Historic Buildings Council. The interior ... | | 03/22/2008 | 46 |
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 | St. Ansgar Cathedral is for the danish catholic community and was consecrated nov. 1. 1842.
Saint Ansgar's Cathedral is the oldest Roman Catholic Church in Copenhagen after the Protestant reformation and has been recognized as a center of Catholic life in this country for more than 150 years. It is the seat of the bishop of Copenhagen, Czeslaw Kozon.
The church wa... | | 03/16/2008 | 63 |
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 | St Alban´s, Copenhagen, in the central but peaceful Churchillparken, is the only Anglican church in Denmark Affectionately known locally as “The English Church”.
http://www.st-albans.dk/ | | 03/16/2008 | 41 |
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 | The Cathedral with its three aisles was built in the centre of Maribo town by Denmark`s first female head of state, Queen Margrethe in 1353-1412, who founded Brigittine Abbey Church which was for both nuns and monks.
Brigittine Church was a double abbey church estimated to accommodate 60 nons and 25 monks (including 12 priests) under the general confessor.
(From Vi... | | 03/15/2008 | 70 |
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 | The construction of the church finished in 1559.
The oldest part from 1200. Furnishings mainly from the 17th century.
Baptismal font from 1579. Wood carvings from the 17th century.
The church was thoroughly restored in the period 2000-2001.
(From Visit Denmmark) | | 03/15/2008 | 52 |
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 | Beautiful Gothic cathedral. Luther's ideas were preached here for the first time in the Kingdom in 1525. Other churches first followed suit 11 years later. Tallest church windows in Scandinavia. One of the country's largest organs. The historis Siseby organ is placed in the chancel. Regimental memorial chapel.
Regimental music corps marches to church every Friday, when a page is... | | 03/15/2008 | 229 |
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 | Aalborg Cathedral (Budolfi) is a whitewashed 12th-century cathedral decorated with colorful frescoes and beautifully carved woodwork. Nearby you’ll find the museum of the Aalborg Franciscan Friary. Located underground on the ancient friary site, it traces the history of medieval Aalborg based on findings from archaeological digs in the 1990s.
(From Visit Denmark) |  | 03/14/2008 | 296 |
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 | Ribe Cathedral (Church of our Lady), the prominent landmark of the town that can be seen for miles across the flat landscape. The cathedral was begun between 1150 and 1175 and completed between 1225 and 1250. The building materials were tufa stone, a rock of volcanic origin brought home from the Rhine area, German sandstone and Jutlandic granite. At that time there were two towers of equal heig... |  | 03/14/2008 | 260 |
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 | All the churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Fly around town and find a church of your choice | | 03/11/2008 | 130 |
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 | Map from the book "Die Kloster des Tur-Abdin" shows monasteries in the Tur Abdin region - functional, remnants or dissapeared. | | 03/08/2008 | 116 |
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