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According to Dr. William R. Cook, Professor of Religious History at SUNY Geneseo, these are the world's greatest churches.
My favorite is Hagia Sophia.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Hagia Sophia
The Cave Churches of Cappadocia
The Rock-Hewn Churches of Ethiopia
The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
The Stave Churches of Norway
The Pilgrimage Church of Sainte-Foy
The Cathedral of Monreale
Chartres Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral
The Cathedral of Siena
St. Peter’s Basilica
The Wieskirche in Bavaria
La Compañía and Las Lajas Sanctuary
Guadalupe and the Cathedral of Mexico City
La Sagrada Família
Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja
Hagia Sophia
Cypress (01-07-2019)
I wonder what Jesus would say upon seeing these things?
Once the Bible was translated into English, and the common person could read what it said, ... they shit themselves.
Cypress (01-07-2019)
I wouldn't presume to speak for Jesus, but I was raised in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and therefore iconography, ornate religious art, and Byzantine architecture seems serene and appealing to me. But I can respect how iconography and ornate religious expression is supposedly offensive to most Protestant sensibilities.
Frank Apisa (01-08-2019), kudzu (01-08-2019)
Using my old Catholic eye - we like exuberant architecture.
I personally see nothing wrong with baroque religious art/icons, if that is what appeals to you
Shouldn't Notre Dame be on that list?
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
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