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 Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:33 am
 Grand structures designed to glorify God
Facts & Figures
The Norwich Anglican has the second tallest spire in the UK.
The St. Vitus in Prague took 500 years to build.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:33 am
It's amazing. I live so close to great historical buildings like this. The Norwich Anglican Cathedral is 916-17 years old now.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:35 pm
It is amazing both how elegant and how sturdy these buildings are. And those are some great photos. Did you take them yourself?
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:47 pm
Good God, I was just learning about that same church in Art History in March.... >.< I remembered the cloisters... its funny what you remember. Catholic by areal view, does it have a rose window? I cant tell by the pictures, otherwise I could tell you what era it was built.
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:44 am
Unfortunately I didn't take the photos myself. I found them all online and linked to them. razz
What do you make of Norwich Cathedral? I live about 15-20 minutes drive from it.
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:22 pm
I love cathedral architecture. We have a one-hundred-year-old Gothic-like cathedral built in Washington, DC using Gothic architectural metrics, it's the only atom-bomb-proof cathedral in the world... but it doesn't have nearly the cachet the true originals have.
I need to check my passport and go visiting again, I see... smile
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:59 pm
Just save up and come to the UK!
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:12 pm
Absolutely! smile Past time to do that.
BTW, I promised to post a link to my pix of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, AKA the Washington Cathedral. Here you go:
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/Luthiel/June Visit 2007/Cathedral Pics/
I have other pics, but these are the only ones up yet. The very first one is of a place I love to go on nice days, to sit and read. smile Let me know if the link works!
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:25 am
The link works fine. Those are some really nice photos.
So the US has a little bit of that kind of history. It's a shame such things are few and far between over there though. They're everywhere in Europe.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:28 am
There are lots of churches, mostly built around the 1880s-1910s, that are modeled on much older church architecture from the British Isles. Which I just love, of course.... *grins*
Modern church/synagogue architecture does just about nothing for me. I can count on one hand the number of modern spiritual spaces that have ever made me feel at all like I was in a sacred place.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:48 am
Yeah, it's a shame there isn't all that much in the US by those means.
It's all due to the fact that the Europeans didn't discover America until the late 1400s really. They then began their own kind of style, and they lost their European roots in a manner of speaking.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:41 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:21 pm
Those cathedrals are gorgeous! You do not know how much I want to visit those in Europe and get away from these so called Churches in the US. The two I want to see before I die are the Notre Dame in Paris and St. Stephens in Vienna. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:25 am
Now I want to try to link some pictures of some of my favorite churches. I don't know, how it workes... Evangelische Stiftskirche in Stuttgart Protestant (lutheran) Collegiate Church in Stuttgart Inside: After WWII and the destruction of the church by bombs, the made some elements in a modern style for showing the stigmata the war have made.
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:31 am
My absolutely favorite church is these: Evangelische Schlosskirche, Altes Schloss Stuttgart Protestant (lutheran) Castle Curch, Old Castle Stuttgart Its not a cathedral, but one of the beautifulliest churches I've ever seen.
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