Right, seeing as how religion has bin a bit of a popular topic recently, how about an AA dedicated to religious buildings?
Not interest in your onions of religion, just examples of religious architecture. Religion has undoubtedly given the World some of it’s greatest and most iconic buildings, many of which have existed for bloody ages, and have bin built propply. Also, they can be some of the most ostentatious and flamboyant buildings around, as well as sometimes very modest and unassuming.
Obviously I’m going to start off with my local village, aren’t I?
Unfortunately when I went it was in the middle of renovation works so a lot of it was hidden behind scaffolding. It wasn’t long after The DaVinci Code had come out so the place was heaving. 🙁 Very impressive though. Quite a small place but there’s not an inch of it that isn’t ornately carved.
You should like this one Fred. My favourite building in the world. Truly Majestic. Even if it is in….. no, can’t even bring myself to say it 😀
Designed by a 22 year old and incorporating revolutionary engineering. The largest unsupported bell tower in the world. He never saw it finished. Does what a cathedral should do. Makes you feel tiny and insignificant. If you’ve never been there, you should. People rave about sagrada familia (and it is impressive), but he never got close to finishing it. This on the other hand is a polished masterpiece
Binners; one day, I must steel myself for a trip up to Where There Be Dragons (North), to see such delights, and I’d love to have someone like yerself and Harry Spider as guides, as youse are clearly passionate about buildings and stuff like meself.
Oh, and those Muslamicals, you’ve got to watch out for them lot:
The whole complex of castle, cathedral and surrounding buildings all perched on that massive rock which dominates the skyline is just incredible, the size and scale and grandeur of it all.
Thing I love about English churches is the real sense of antiquity that you get from them. Very little remains of the Norman world apart from these. My very most favouritist is Torbryan chuch in South Devon. No longer used as a working church which is a shame but you can hire it for weddings.
Sadly I can’t find any picturs of the south entrance. It bears the scars of the reformation as the heads of the cherubs have all been hacked off except one. I often wonder how that one survived. Were the soldiers interupted by the priest who recieved the treatment instead of the last cherub ?
Most unususal is the surviving rood screen. There can’yt be many places were medieaval art is unguarded and on show like this. Sorry that there’s not more detail in the image.
Miyojima Shrine.
Me and the missus went there a couple of years ago. Dusk ferry ride from mainland Japan across to the island, then a walk with the wild deer to see the shrine. One of the most peaceful places I’ve ever been.
Great flying buttresses on the cathedral at Prague.
My mum grew up in Neasden elf. Last year she asked me to show her where the mosque was on google earth on my laptop. I think that’s the only time she’s ever looked at a computer. She was fascinated looking around the area she hadn’t been to for over fifty years.