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Churches, Mosques and other religious buildings from around the world. |
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 | Biggest Mosque (by capacity of worshippers) in the world. Its in Islamabad, Pakistan. |  | 12/04/2005 | 562 | 
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 | These are the fourth and fifth churches built on this site since 1818. The fourth church or cathedral was built in 1908 and destroyed by fire in 1968. The interior was lost and the two towers which flanked the rose window of the west front were removed. It was designed by the Montreal architectural firm of Marchand and Haskell. The new cathedral, designed by renowned French-Canadian architect É... |  | 12/03/2005 | 147 |
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 | Monumento à riqueza dos Descobrimentos, constitui o ponto mais alto da arquitectura manuelina e o mais notável conjunto monástico do século XVI em Portugal e uma das principais igrejas-salão da Europa. | | 12/03/2005 | 188 |
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 | The cathedral was partly destroyed by the 1972 earthquake. Near the cathedral is the grave of one of the founders of the Frente Sandinista de la liberación national: Carlos Fonseca Amador. | | 12/02/2005 | 350 |
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 | Choonghyun presbyterian church was established september 6 ,1953.
"The grace of our lord Jesus Christ" |  | 12/01/2005 | 169 |
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 | This is the place of the Padre Cicero Statue (Estátua de Pe. Cícero), in Juazeiro do Norte, CE - Brasil. | | 12/01/2005 | 212 |
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 | This rectangular building is a museum dedicated to Saint François. The museum is held by franciscans. It is part of the notre-dame church and the franciscan monastery. | | 11/29/2005 | 127 |
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 | Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is Tallinn’s largest and grandest cupola cathedral.
The large, richly decorated Orthodox church, in mixed historicist style, was built on Toompea Hill in 1900, when Estonia was part of the Russian tsarist empire. The architect of the church was Mikhail Preobrazhenski from St. Petersburg. The church is dedicated to the Prince of Novgorod, Alexander Yaro... | | 11/29/2005 | 286 |
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 | This is a high resolution overlay of the Indonesian Borobudur. The Borobudur is a large square-based stupa 40km to the north west of Yogyakarta, in a volcanic region on the Indonesian island of Java. I hope you enjoy |  | 11/28/2005 | 2,700 |
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 | The Wat Chiang Man was built in 1297. It was the first temple to be built in Chiang Mai and contains several very old artifacts. | | 11/28/2005 | 240 |
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 | Saint-Jean Cathedral, Lyon, France. |  | 11/23/2005 | 197 |
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 | Nécroplole of the French kings. Almost all the kings of France are buried there. | | 11/23/2005 | 213 |
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 | The american cathedral in Paris. http://www.americancathedral.org | | 11/21/2005 | 161 |
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 | S.Carlo da Sezze is a magnificent church in rome's suburbs | | 11/17/2005 | 134 |
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 | Church in Rome | | 11/17/2005 | 133 |
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 | This little building that looks like a farmer house is in reality an old chapel consecrated to saint Anne. When you say "Anne" in the region of Bretagne, all the people would directly think about Anne of Bretagne, who was the duchess of Bretagne from 1488 to 1514.
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 | The beautiful Moghul-style Badshahi Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world – almost as magnificent as the Taj Mahal in India.
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 | This is a recently constructed mosque of great size in classical Ottoman design with four minarets. Built between 1967 and 1987 in the Kocatepe quarter, its size and prominent situation have made it a landmark. |  | 11/07/2005 | 405 |
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 | This was the first Turkish mosque built after the conquest. The main building was completed in seven years (1463-1470).
The architect Atic Sinan built the largest kulliye in Ottoman Art History. The kulliye consisted of medreses, Kervansaray, hamam, a hospital, baths, a kitchen for the poor, a library, and a Koranic school. The Kulliye has been preserved in its original form. The origin... |  | 11/07/2005 | 260 |
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 | One of the oldest mosques in the city and the oldest surviving imperial mosque, Beyazit Camii was built between 1501 and 1506 using materials taken from Theodosius's Forum of Tauri, on which it was built. | | 11/07/2005 | 246 |
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 | Sultan Suleyman the Magnificant commissioned the Suleymaniye Mosque, which was designed by Architect Sinan and built between the dates 1550-1557. This mosque is the central piece of a kulliya, which crowns one of the seven hills of the world's most beautiful city, Istanbul. This complex of buildings comprises a madrasa, a medical madrasa and hospital (dar'us sifa), a dining hall (dar'us ziyafe)... | | 11/07/2005 | 321 |
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 | It is one of the masterpieces of the Romanesque Spanish art. In the century X already Baptizer existed as church of San Juan, reconstructed by Fernando I and dona Sancha in 1063. Later, Alfonso VI and his(her,your) daughter dona Urraca extended it up to his(her,your) current condition(state). The apses of the XIth century remain, the walls of the cruise and the part it(he,she) goes down the int... | | 11/05/2005 | 154 |
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 | When standing on one of the hills surrounding the center of Brussels, one can always see the dome of the Basilica in Western direction.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart (situated in the Suburb of Koekelberg) is labeled "the national Basilica of Belgium". It was built to remember the 75th anniversary of the Belgian independence.
In 1905 king Leopold II lai... | | 11/05/2005 | 269 |
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 | Late 11th-early 12th century Church in Milan. Beautiful building. | | 11/05/2005 | 178 |
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 | 365 years ago the inhabitants of the bavarian village Oberammergau promised to play the passion of Christ every 10 years, if they remained exempted from the plague which raged at that time in Europe. The last Passion Play took place in the year 2000. | | 10/29/2005 | 260 |
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