Favorite Church Architecture

[TheeCatholic]

Interior, outerior, or both.

Both!!
There's no place like St Peters, thats for sure

 

[tadoflamb]

Abston Church of Christ

 

[TheeCatholic]

Abston Church of Christ

LOL.
Funny.

 

[ProScribe]

I personally like the modest wood chapel style unique to Eastern Orthodoxy.

 

[Mr Dave]

Tewkesbury Abbey as the current flooding encroaches

 

[Mr Dave]

Brechin Cathedral

 

[Gnarwhal]

I am quite interested. Please keep us posted. I noticed in the linked article that the actual abbey has been taken apart piece by piece and is binge re-erected on a new site. A lot of ordinary construction materials have been lost and new materials have taken their place. For example, steel framing and concrete framing have been inserted to carry loads. One of the hotly-debated questions in my profession is when a building ceases to be a reassembly of original pieces to recreate the original structure and when it becomes a new structures using some old pieces with an end result that, although visibly identical to the original, is not the actual structure.

There is a Cistercian abbey near my home town which is called New Melleray (the original Melleray is in Ireland). Here is a link to their home page - New Melleray Abbey

It's been almost a year since I originally thought I was going (time gets away from ya when it comes to hobbies such as this), but today my wife and I went with my parents out to New Clairvaux to sample a new Rosé wine that they came out with last week, while out there I shot some photos—they're not the best but at least I was able to follow through. I may post these in OBOB just to share with my Catholic friends.

Just a recap - this project is called "The Sacred Stones" and in which they're taking the original stones from Santa Maria de Ovila in Spain (and which were held by the William Randolph Hearst foundation until the 90's or so) and reconstructing the original monastery to be used by the Trappists in Vina. It's quite amazing to brush your hands along stones that have been around since the early 13th century. I believe this monastery was constructed around the time that Europe launched the Fifth Crusade.

Outside the Chapter House:

Window architecture

Looking straight up at the arched ceilings, you can't tell they ascend upward from this angle...

Interior archway

Looking out to the walnut orchard

Ceiling detail

One of the columns, I love the intricacy of the masonry

More detail around the archway

Close up of the south window

East facing window (one of three)

For good measure...

Cheers.

 

[ephesians4:2]

I dont know if anyones posted this church yet?
Church of the Light by Japanese architect Tadao Ando
A beautiful play of light and concrete creating a spiritually inspiring space.

Pic of sanctuary

Another pic of sanctuary looking in the opposite direction.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Okay, it is time to revive this thread.

Would anyone care to take a stab as to the location of this church building?

 

[A New Dawn]

Okay, it is time to revive this thread.

Would anyone care to take a stab as to the location of this church building?

Candor, NY?

 

[bbbbbbb]

Candor, NY?

No, it is actually in Qingdao, China. Who would've guessed that? Not me.

Would you like to post a pic for myself and others to guess at?

 

[Girder of Loins]

Catholics and anyone else with big buildings have it so good. The acoustics are perfect(no sound techs needed), and everything is so beautiful and glorifying to God.

 

[A New Dawn]

No, it is actually in Qingdao, China. Who would've guessed that? Not me.

Would you like to post a pic for myself and others to guess at?

I didn't really think it was in Candor, NY, but it looks exactly like a lot of churches in the Central NY area. LOL.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Okay. Here is another church, with a big hint.

 

[A New Dawn]

It's in Africa somewhere, right?????

 

[Kristos]

Pavlovskaya

 

[brinny]

in Russia?

 

[Kristos]

in Russia?

yes - Russian Federation