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(Image Credits: Touring Boy) This church is really odd one, sorry I have no info on it, only the words of the picture author: "This was on the canal to Carnac. Really odd church in the (seeming) middle of nowhere. " Mads: "This is the chapel of St-Gildas, which sits upon the... more
Reviewed by Chaotiqual Feb 09 2009, 11:43pm ( 143 reviews ) • villageofjoy.com
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Rated by doomer4 on Feb 27 2009, 12:09am
im speechless
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Rated by sreeelango on Feb 22 2009, 10:35pm
From the page: "20 Unusual Churches (Part I)"
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Reviewed by lucky33000 on Feb 20 2009, 4:59pm
Incredible how many ways JESUS gives us to worship him!
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Rated by 6stringsongbird on Feb 18 2009, 5:20pm
Pictures of more beautiful, beautiful churches can be found on this page. Makes me want to travel the world and see them all...
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Rated by Ro1279 on Feb 17 2009, 11:13am
Some really stunning pictures of Churches around the world...
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Rated by AdventureSeeker7 on Feb 16 2009, 8:14pm
The architecture of these churches is a stunning testimony to creativity and innovation of the designers and builders.
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Rated by Chaotiqual on Feb 09 2009, 11:43pm
(Image Credits: Touring Boy) This church is really odd one, sorry I have no info on it, only the words of the picture author: "This was on the canal to Carnac. Really odd church in the (seeming) middle of nowhere. " Mads: "This is the chapel of St-Gildas, which sits upon the bank of the Canal du Blavet in Brittany, France. "Built like a stone barn into the base of a bare rocky cliff, this was once a holy place of the Druids. Gildas appears to have travelled widely throughout the Celtic world of Corwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. He arrived in Brittany in about AD 540 and is said to have preached Christianity to the people from a rough pulpit, now contained within the chapel." (from `Cruising French Waterways' by Hugh McKnight p.150)" (Image Credits: julkastro) Las Lajas Cathedral looks unusual to me because one side of it seems to be a part of a bridge across the river and the other side rests on the hill. The overall look is really fascinating. Built in 1916 inside the canyon of the Guaitara river where, according to local legend, the Virgin Mary appeared. You can find this church in southern Colombian Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales, near the border with Ecuador. Image Credits: Lst1984) Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed , is a multi-tented church which stands on the Red Square in Moscow. This church looks really cool, because It has very unusual onion domes which look playful and colorful. Sometimes people even say, that they remind them of lollypops. The cathedral was built in 1555 -1561 by Ivan IV (a.k.a Ivan the Terrible) to celebrate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. A legend says that Ivan had the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, blinded to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else. In fact, Postnik Yakovlev built a number of churches after Saint Basil's. (Image Credits: marcelgermain) I will just cite, what the author of this picture wrote about it: "Paraportianí Church is one of the most famous architectural structures in Greece. Its name means secondary gate, because it was built on the site of one of the gates of the Medieval stone walls. Some parts of this beautiful church date from 1425 and the rest was built during the 16th and 17th centuries. " Thanks heaps to my friend Julian for this stunning link.
