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Churches, Mosques and other religious buildings from around the world. |
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 | Liberty Jail is the location of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS or "Mormom" church. |  | 08/19/2005 | 200 | 
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 | The famous Hagia Sofia mosque in Istanbul Turkey. It was built by Constantine the Great in the 6th century, the architects were Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.
Hagia Sophia is one of the greatest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture. Its central dome is 31 meters in diameter and 56 meters high. It has been damaged by earthquakes in 558, 563, 989 and 1346.
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 | St. Michaelis church (Michel), Hamburg |  | 08/18/2005 | 304 |
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 | Seating 3,000, Europe's largest synagogue was designed by Ludwig Förs and built between 1844 and 1859 in a Byzantine-Moorish. Desecrated by German and Hungarian Nazis, it was painstakingly reconstructed with donations from all over the world; its doors reopened in the fall of 1996 |  | 08/18/2005 | 216 |
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 | Hungary's second most important church, located in downtown Budapest |  | 08/18/2005 | 280 |
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 | Church and monastery of the Abbey are the two most well-known sights of Tihany. The crypt (from 1055) is a hall crypt of three naves of Roman style remained in good state; it is the only royal burial-place remained in its Árpád-age state in Hungary. Here lies King András I died in 1060. The baroque church and monastery of today's Tihany were built between 1719 and 1760, baroque furniture of the... | | 08/18/2005 | 249 |
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 | A mosque turned to a catholic cathedral after Cordoba was re-conquered from the Moorish (1236). | | 08/18/2005 | 404 |
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 | Casablanca is home to the Hassan II Mosque, the second largest in the world. Its minaret is also the world's tallest at 210m. It was built for former Moroccan King Hassan II's 60th birthday and was finished in 1993 [From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]. | | 08/17/2005 | 436 |
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 | St. James Cathedral in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., is the seat of the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. | | 08/17/2005 | 199 |
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 | Medjugorje, place of Marian apparitions since 1981. www.medjugorje.hr | | 08/16/2005 | 439 |
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 | All Latterday Saints (LDS) churches and meeting houses in Denmark | | 08/16/2005 | 232 |
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 | Rongbuk Monastery (at elevation 5000 meters ) is the highest monastery in the world. It is also the last inhabited spot before Everest Base Camp, about 7 km distant. From Rongbuk Monastery the huge north face of Everest is clearly seen. | | 08/16/2005 | 1,027 |
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 | Central Catedral in Sao Paulo (Catedral da Se) | | 08/15/2005 | 212 |
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 | Huge Pentecostal Church in Sao Paulo - Deus e Amor (God is Love) | | 08/15/2005 | 175 |
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 | one of the biggest churches in the world,
constructed in steel and more than 10,000 silver plated glass panels | | 08/15/2005 | 279 |
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 | Koeln (Colonge) Dome in Germany |  | 08/15/2005 | 515 |
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 | Pathumtani, Thailand |  | 08/15/2005 | 385 |
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 | It is Place of Buddhism located in Bhudhha Monthon Distict, Nakhon Prathom Province, Thailand. | | 08/14/2005 | 304 |
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 | Cathedral Sao Sebastian, in Rio de Janeiro. | | 08/14/2005 | 325 |
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 | Essen Cathedral overlay (Germany) |  | 08/13/2005 | 328 |
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 | The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai kingdom that existed from the 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya (อยุธยา) as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai, 640 km to the north, in 1376. Over the next four centuries the kingdom expanded to become the nation of Siam, whose borders were roughly those of modern Thailand, e... | | 08/13/2005 | 405 |
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 | Chiang Mai (in Thai เชียงใหม่), also sometimes referred to as "Chiengmai", is the second-largest city in Thailand, and the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It lies some 800km north of Bangkok, among some of the highest mountains in the country. The city stands on the Ping river, a major tributary of the Chao... | | 08/13/2005 | 593 |
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 | The famous cathedral of Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain. More info (Wikipedia). | | 08/12/2005 | 1,120 |
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 | Too bad it's not high-res. More info on the Buddha (from the Wikipedia). | | 08/12/2005 | 289 |
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 | Monastery Lluc, Mallorca. Place of pilgrimage, where monks still live // Kloster Lluc, Mallorca. Wichtigster Wallfahrtsort der Mallorquiner, ist eines von wenigen Klöstern auf der Insel, in dem immer noch Mönche leben. | | 08/11/2005 | 344 |
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