Tag: church
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271 | Unexpected :: Hallstatt, Austria, 2016
I know, more skulls?? But these are super fancy and decorated. Why you ask? Smithsonian has the answer! TLDR: All across Europe there was a space issue in graveyards, and since Catholics have to be buried underground, churches started reusing the graveyards by clearing out old bones. They started putting them on display to teach…
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105 | Architecture :: Olafsvik, Iceland, 2014
Everyone’s seen Hallgrimskirkja (Hallgrim’s Church) in Reykjavik, but Iceland is actually the home to many other modernist churches, including the Ólafsvíkurkirkja in the little fishing village of Olafsvik, population ~1,000. The church was consecrated in 1967, and if you look closely, it’s made entirely of triangles. We weren’t looking for it exactly, but there happened to be a…
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092 | Faith :: Burning Man, 2015
Burning Man is all about finding the unexpected, and this was one such find. We were riding back from visiting a friend’s camp when the storm started, and soon we weren’t able to see anything at all. This ghostly structure appeared in the distance and we rode towards it, finding comfort in something that gave…
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091 | Faith :: Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
Not too far from Hagia Sophia lies Hagia Irene, a Greek Eastern Orthodox Church that had the luxury of not being converted to a mosque after the fall of Constantinople. Along with Hagia Sophia and Hagia Dynamis, these three churches were dedicated to God’s three attributes, peace, wisdom, and power. Hagia Irene had stood for…