Most Extraordinary Churches of the World (Makanisa makubwa zaidi
duniani)
The most wonderful buildings on earth are probably
churches, monasteries and other religious structures. You can do much more with
a lot of faith and a lack of money than with a lot of money but without any
faith.Enjoy scrolling down the list, while Panda eats another bamboo leaf.
1. The Church of HallgrÃmur (ReykjavÃk, Iceland)
The Church of HallgrÃmur
is a
Lutheran parish church which is also a very tall one, reaching 74.5 meters (244
ft) height. It is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland.
It took incredibly long to build it (38 years!) Construction work began in
1945 and ended in 1986.
Architect: Guðjón Samúelssondesign.
More info:
HallgrÃmskirkja
In swahili (Kwa lugha ya kiswahili)
1. Kanisa la HallgrÃmur (ReykjavÃk,
Iceland)
Kanisa la HallgrÃ-MUR ni Lutheran Parokia ya kanisa ambayo pia ni mmoja
mrefu sana,
kufikia mita 74.5 (244 ft) urefu. Ni usanifu mrefu zaidi ya nne katika mfumo wa
Iceland.
Ilichukua muda mrefu incredibly kwa kujenga (miaka 38!) Ujenzi kazi ilianza
mwaka 1945 na kumalizika mwaka 1986.
Mbunifu: Gua ° ja ³ n º Sama elssondesign.
Maelezo zaidi:
HallgrÃmskirkja
Device to
Root Out Evil (Calgary, AB, Canada)
It was too
hot for New York City; too hot for Stanford University. But a controversial,
imposing sculpture by renowned international artist Dennis Oppenheim finally
found a public home in laid-back Vancouver.
A country
church is seen balancing on it’s steeple, as if it had been lifted by a
terrific force and brought to the site as a device or method of rooting out
evil forces.
(Update: In
2008 it was moved from Vancouver to Calgary, AB, Canada)
Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe chapel (Le Puy-en-Velay, France)
Perhaps one of the most remarkable sights in France, a chapel perched on a
volcanic plug. This is the Rock of Aiguilhe, on the edge of the town of Puy en
Velay, in the Auvergne. The Chapelle Saint-Michel has stood there for 1042
years, since Bishop Gothescalk had it built in 962 on his return from a
pilgrimage to Santiago del Compostella in Galicia. In 1955 workers found relics
under the alter that had been there since it was built.
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Saint-Michel
da € ™ Aiguilhe chapel (Le Puy-en-Velay, Ufaransa)
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Pengine moja
ya vituko vya ajabu zaidi katika Ufaransa, chapel inapokuwa kwenye kuziba
volkeno. Huu ni Mwamba wa Aiguilhe, makali ya mji wa Puy sw Velay, katika Auvergne.
Chapelle Saint-Michel alisimama huko kwa
miaka 1042, tangu Askofu Gothescalk alikuwa ni kujengwa katika 962 juu ya
kurejea kutoka Hija Santiago del Compostella katika Galicia. Mwaka 1955
wafanyakazi kupatikana sanduku chini ya madhabahu kuwa, walikuwa pale tangu
ilikupowa ikijengwa)
St.
Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery (Kiev, Ukraine)
St.
Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery is a functioning monastery in Kiev, Ukraine.
The monastery is located on the Western side of the Dnieper River on the edge
of a bluff northeast of the St. Sophia Cathedral. The site is located in the
historic and administrative Uppertown and overlooks the city’s historical
commercial and merchant quarter, the Podil neighbourhood.
Originally
built in the Middle Ages by Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych, the monastery comprises
the Cathedral itself (Mykhaylivs’kyi zolotoverkhyi sobor), the refectory of
St. John the Divine, built in 1713, the Economic Gates (Ekonomichna vrata),
constructed in 1760 and the monastery’s bell tower, which was added circa
1716–1719. The exterior of the structure was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque
style in the 18th century while the interior remained in its original Byzantine
style. The cathedral was demolished by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, but
was recently reconstructed after Ukraine gained its independence.
Church
Ruins (Goreme, Turkey)
The rock cut
ruins of a church by persecuted Christians. Not sure when it was built, but
definitely look very ancient. How did those guys carved the inside of these
rocks?
The
Cappadocia valley, where this church stands, is very popular for its rocks that
the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to
form houses, churches, monasteries.
There are an
estimated 150 churches and several monasteries in the canyon between the
villages of Ihlara and Selime.
Those rocks
are volcanic deposits, so that means they are soft rocks, making it possible to
carve such structures.
Tutaendeleaa kukujuza.......