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Churches, Mosques and other religious buildings from around the world. |
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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 | 273 | 
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 | All the churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Fly around town and find a church of your choice |  | 03/11/2008 | 139 |
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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 | 131 |
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 | The list of the monuments is based on Ryborsch Verlag maps. It includes churches, monasteries, fortresses, moschees and their remnants. This is the most complete list you can find anywhere. Ry-6a7 = Ryborsch map part 6a of 7. | | 03/03/2008 | 438 |
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 | Detailed map of Tur Abdin region in Turkey. There are lots of both remnants and functional churches, monasteries and cemeteries of Syriac Orthodox Church here. | | 03/03/2008 | 197 |
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 | UFO look-a-like water tower in Vantaa,Finland. |  | 02/02/2008 | 245 |
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 | The Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, also known as Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated in 1979, she rises in the historical center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. | | 01/12/2008 | 111 |
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 | Tórshavner Cathedral (in Faroese: Havnar Kirkja, or Dómkirkjan) is the second oldest received church of the Faroe Islands, on Tinganes in the old town of Tórshavn. Painted white, and roofed with slate, it was established in 1788. The cathedral church lies in the north of the peninsula Tinganes and is one of the main attractions of the city. Like most churches of the country it belongs to the Ev... | | 12/19/2007 | 93 |
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 | The church in Suurhusen is reminiscent of the old fortress churches of old. Originally the church was 32 metres long and 9.35 metres wide. The church tilts at an angle of 5.19 degrees compared to just 3.97 degrees for the Pisa tower. In 1450 the church was shortened by about a quarter and the tower was built in the space. This tower is considered today to be the most leaning tower in the world ... |  | 12/04/2007 | 168 |
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 | A very Popular Temple to the Goddess Vaishno Devi in Ahmedabad. It is modelled after and is a scale replica of the Vaishno Devi Temple in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The temple draws huge crowds of devotees from all over India. | | 11/15/2007 | 272 |
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 | The church was build in 13th. century, around 2 km (1,24 miles) from the coastline today, and was the thurch of nearby village Lonstrup until 1928 when the new church was build. A new church had to be build because the sea ate the coastline bit for bit through time because of storms.
The entire interior of the church has been moved to the new church in Lonstrup.
The GE im... | | 11/04/2007 | 116 |
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 | A large church in the middle of Halle Saale, Germany, in clear resolution. |  | 09/09/2007 | 538 |
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 | Late 12th/Early 13th century cathedral in Somerset. | | 09/09/2007 | 261 |
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 | Abbey church, all that remains of the Benedictine house featured in the Cadfael books of Ellis Peters. | | 09/09/2007 | 226 |
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 | Beautiful Norman cathedral started in 1108. | | 09/09/2007 | 192 |
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 | Cathedral begun in 1118. | | 09/09/2007 | 113 |
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 | Norman cathedral started in 1077. | | 09/09/2007 | 165 |
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 | Famous and impressive church in Yorkshire. | | 09/07/2007 | 158 |
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 | Begun in 1079, this cathedral has the longest nave of any church in Europe. | | 09/07/2007 | 185 |
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 | Started in 1220, the spire (at 123 m the tallest in Britain) was not added until 1320. | | 09/07/2007 | 164 |
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 | Claimed to be the largest gothic church in northern Europe. Construction began in 1220. | | 09/07/2007 | 141 |
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 | Diokaisareia was a centre for the worship of Zeus Olbius and was known as Olba before it was renamed in the Roman period. The site and its environs contain many tombs where worshippers were buried. The site has been surveyed since 2003 by Detlev Wannagat of the University of Freiburg. | | 09/04/2007 | 258 |
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 | This church was build 654AD is located east of Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex.
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http://www.bradwellchapel.org/index.htm | | 07/30/2007 | 292 |
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 | Canterbury Cathedral is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the Cathedral of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England and religious leader of the Church of England. It houses The Chair of St. Augustine As well as being the mother church of the Diocese of Canterbury (east Kent) it is the focus f... |  | 07/28/2007 | 294 |
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 | Or just Church of our Savior (Vor Frelser Kirke) is the cathedral of Greenland. It was build 1849.
Up to 1993 the cathedral of Greenland was the same as in Copenhagen, but by law Vor Frelse Kirke became cathedral of Greenland. The first bishop was Kristian Mørk (1994) but 1995 Sofie Petersen became bishop at the age of 39. She is a native of Greenland and was also the second fema... | | 06/12/2007 | 175 |
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