Beautiful Churches and Their Meaning
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Our Lady Star of the Sea in Cape May NJ
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Another stunning Catholic church in Washington D.C. which I hope some day I will make it to, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It is a basilica.
I love the National Basilica. I have a close friend who went to Catholic University for his Ph.D., which is where the basilica is located. Whenever I visited him we'd attend daily mass there if it was early enough or just go in and walk around.
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Beautiful church. I always wanted to visit, but I'm permanently boycotting, as their recent decision to host a Muslim prayer service is disgraceful to say the least.
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Ya'll mean the nice buildings in the pictures?
Not a single one has anything to do with the church of God which consists of people, not brick and stone or wood or anything like that.
So much for setting our affections on the things which are above and not on the things on earth.
Not a single one has anything to do with the church of God which consists of people, not brick and stone or wood or anything like that.
So much for setting our affections on the things which are above and not on the things on earth.
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National Cathedral
Having grown up in the D.C. area, I really can't stand the National Cathedral. It's imitation of European Gothic seems really fake and there's a lot more nationalistic imagery than Christian imagery. And one of the gargoyles is Darth Vader.
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Churches are the places where the community gathers in order to bridge the gap between heaven and earth. They facilitate looking above. That's why the trend in church architecture has been to either create extremely tall buildings that focus our gaze upwards (mostly western) or ever-larger domes that signify God's rule over the entire cosmos (mostly eastern). Church architecture is theology in stone.
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I think I'm going to take pictures of my simple church to share. It won't be as impressive as these churches. lol
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They are architecturally pleasing to the eye... but taken in context I find them gross.
What context is that?
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I totally agree with you. It is a great shame that the Episcopal Church in America has fallen away from the faith once delivered.
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Not to mention the Outer Space Window. What started as an effort to authentically reproduce a Gothic cathedral entirely in stone without any structural steel (unlike its rival, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City) was usurped in the late twentieth century with pathetic efforts such as these to make it "relevant" to a new generation.
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Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain by Antoni Gaudi. It is architecturally peculiar, but is the greatest work by this architect with an extremely well-defined iconography. Unfortunate, Gaudi met an untimely death and work was suspended for much of the twentieth century. It has been resumed, based upon rather scanty material left by Gaudi.
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More images and links here - https://www.google.com/search?q=sag...QCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=767#imgdii=_
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I may be mistaken but I think this is the oldest building in the world that is a functioning church; it's been a church since around 609 AD and was build around 125 AD. It is called Santa Maria ad Martyres (Saint Mary and the Martyrs) church.
The architecture is Roman, naturally enough, and was originally intended for the worship of the Roman gods of antiquity. In 609 AD it was given to pope Boniface IV by the Byzantine emperor Phocas. It was converted to a Christian church by Boniface. It is quite a popular tourist attraction nowadays which is, in some ways, a pity because it is very likely almost impossible for a local parish to meet and worship there. Still, it is visually splendid.
The architecture is Roman, naturally enough, and was originally intended for the worship of the Roman gods of antiquity. In 609 AD it was given to pope Boniface IV by the Byzantine emperor Phocas. It was converted to a Christian church by Boniface. It is quite a popular tourist attraction nowadays which is, in some ways, a pity because it is very likely almost impossible for a local parish to meet and worship there. Still, it is visually splendid.
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I may be mistaken but I think this is the oldest building in the world that is a functioning church; it's been a church since around 609 AD and was build around 125 AD. It is called Santa Maria ad Martyres (Saint Mary and the Martyrs) church.
The architecture is Roman, naturally enough, and was originally intended for the worship of the Roman gods of antiquity. In 609 AD it was given to pope Boniface IV by the Byzantine emperor Phocas. It was converted to a Christian church by Boniface. It is quite a popular tourist attraction nowadays which is, in some ways, a pity because it is very likely almost impossible for a local parish to meet and worship there. Still, it is visually splendid.
At first I thought, "Isn't that just a bunch of ruins?" Then I realized I was thinking of the Parthenon.
edit: the Church was formally known as the Pantheon before dedicated.
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I may be mistaken but I think this is the oldest building in the world that is a functioning church; it's been a church since around 609 AD and was build around 125 AD. It is called Santa Maria ad Martyres (Saint Mary and the Martyrs) church.
The architecture is Roman, naturally enough, and was originally intended for the worship of the Roman gods of antiquity. In 609 AD it was given to pope Boniface IV by the Byzantine emperor Phocas. It was converted to a Christian church by Boniface. It is quite a popular tourist attraction nowadays which is, in some ways, a pity because it is very likely almost impossible for a local parish to meet and worship there. Still, it is visually splendid.
San Clemente in Rome is probably older. It was a Mithraeum before it became a church.
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