Posted: 12/17/2009 9:43:52 PM EDT
| CNN had a story today with some good pictures of different religious sites. Link |
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Neat photos. All of those pale in comparison to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, however. (even the cathedrals in Spain). It's one of my favorite because of the Byzantine artwork and architecture inside with Romanesque architecture outside.
Just about any ornate Orthodox church catches my eye... |
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Though that iReport is only 13 photos and any such report is the product of the "iReporter's" biases (or ignorance,) still I am surprised nothing from the Christian East is included in Ms Zdanowicz' concept of diversity. Watching the New Year's celebrations around the world, it was hard not to notice that the only landmark they showed in the foreground of a city's fireworks that is religious was St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
That image of the shell-struck church reminded me of another set of photos I've seen. An Orthodox church in the Kosovo region of Serbia, built in the 1500s: 
What it looked like after NATO came in to protect the Albanian Muslim insurgency in 1999: 
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