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The upper cloister at Convento de San Estoban, Salamanca #Salamanca #conventodesanesteban #cloisters #uppercloister #monastery #symmetry (at Salamanca, Spain)
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Meteora - Have Your Head in the Clouds!
Built in the Byzantine times by monks who thought the placement of the Monasteries on top of the ancient rocks would bring them closer to God!
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Amazing Buildings - Meteora Monastery
Take the train from Thessaloniki and in just three hours you will see the breathtaking Meteora Monastery which literally means ‘suspended in the sky’
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Mosaic in Chapel of Tears in Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey (the Vosges Mountains, Alsace, France)
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The Spring Temple Buddha in Henan, China, is the tallest statue in the world. It stands 153 metres tall, 60 metres taller than the Statue of Liberty
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Autor: Karina Trojok. Bazylika św. Ludwika Króla i Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny – neoromański kościół klasztorny w Katowicach Panewnikach z początku XX wieku. #polska #poland #slask #silesia #uppersilesia #katowice #panewniki #bazylikapanewniki #church #franciszkanie #christians #view #architektura #architecture #monastery #franciscans #picoftheday #pictureoftheday #bestoftheday #instagood #photooftheday #dziennikzachodni
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The Viking Age in Ireland
The Viking Age in Ireland
The exact reasons for Vikings venturing out from their homeland are uncertain; some have suggested it was due to overpopulation of their homeland, but the earliest Vikings were looking for riches, not land. Vikings also settled in Scotland and, like Ireland, started to settle with the local population. In Scotland these people became known as The Gallowglasses and would later arrive in Ireland as…
MTV Cribs: Goth Edition. The chandelier was made from the bones of my enemies
(The Sedlec Ossuary - also known as the Church of Bones - is decorated with 40,000+ human skeletons. Back in 1870, a local woodcarver was employed with the macabre af task of artistically arranging thousands of bones, since there was no more room in the crypt.)
#sedlecossuary #church #cathedral #churchofbones #creepy #macabre #bones #skulls #skeletons #mementomori #death #skull #bonechurch #goth #gothic #architecture #chandelier #crypt #grave #graveyard #czechrepublic #monastery #kutnahora (at Sedlec Ossuary)
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Superstar. #statue #jesus #monastery #ancientspanishmonastery #palmtrees #fl #florida #miami #sculpturegarden #travel #vacation #art
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The Middle Ages have terrible cell service. #architecture #miami #vacation #travel #monastery #ancient #ancientspanishmonastery #medieval #middleages (at The Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation)
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Holy Photobomb. #statues #saints #garden #church #monastery #ancientspanishmonastery #flowers #vacation #travel #miami #nature #photobomb #stfrancis #virginmary (at The Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation)
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Always a sucker for stained glass. #stainedglass #art #architecture #church #monastery #ancientspanishmonastery #travel #colors #vacation #church (at The Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation)
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Old things are dope. #monastery #miami #ancientspanishmonastery #cloisters #architecture #nature #ruins #church #ancient #old #travel #history (at The Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation)
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Throwback Sunday #aboutlastsunday #throwbacksunday #tripdownmemorylane #blastfromthepast #favouritetripdestination #monastery #beautyineverything #theartofthehumanmind #disconnectionfromreligion #connectiontoself #weirdwordsthatmakesense #mylogic #mymind #mymadness #old #preserved #restrored #beautiful (at Бачковски Mанастир)
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Inside Timolegue Abbey by Dora Meulman
Via Flickr:
Founded in 1240
these mysterious wall passages
take us back in time.
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where holy men once carved in rock the sacred place of Glendalough by Dora Meulman
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Beautiful Co Wicklow Ireland.
Santa catalina macetas (pots) #arequipa #perú #ctperu #santacatalina #convento #convent #monastery #monasterio #rojo #reds # macetas #pots #canon #6d #sigma #10-20mm #street #canonshot #canonshoot #canongallery #igers #igersperu (en Convento De Santa Catalina - Arequipa)
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La cocina. Convento de Santa Catalina. Arequipa..Perú. por esos 3 tragaluces al mediodía caen rayos de luz fantásticos. #arequipa #peru #santacatalina #convento #convent #monasterio #monastery #cocina #kitchen @canon_photos @canon.shoot @canonusa @canongallery #canon #60d #ctperu #ctarequipa #tragaluz #igerperu #igersarequipa (en Convento De Santa Catalina - Arequipa)
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“Does Christ reign in your heart? Ask the things you have stored up there. See what they tell you. Does self-reliance seem like the most reliable way home? Everyone has a list of failures to demolish that claim. Only knowing the Lord as your yokemate and redeemer enables a passage through the strictest crevice. The approach is all different: no longer trying like a fly to buzz through a sunlit window pane, but as one carried not along the way, but by Him who is the Way.”
– Father John Henry Hanson, O. Praem.
