Badass Churches
This thread is inspired by SkyscrapersOfNewYork's contribution to the tallest churches thread.
Use this thread to post images of churches that put the fear of God into all that lay eyes on them. :ahhh: For ease of downloading, let's stick to one church per post. Here are a few for starters. http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/...1_7a0b1cdb.jpg St Nicholas, Burnage, Geograph, S Parish, some rights reserved http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1584661 |
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/...58e8d5a9_b.jpg
Pilgrimage Church, Neviges Seier and Seier, Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/3165564453/ Some rights reserved. |
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/77/16...f3583dff05.jpg
Christchurch Spitalfields, MSH* Mark Barker, Flickr Some Rights Reserved http://www.flickr.com/photos/69108241@N00/3051490374/ |
And the granddaddy of badass churches, Cologne Cathedral:
http://www.thoschi.net/uploads/2008/04/domturm_web.jpg Thoschi, thoschi.net, some rights reserved, http://www.thoschi.net/gotham-city-p...ral-of-cologne |
Fantastic selection! That Columbian one is insane.
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This one may be "badass" according to a different definition...
Arlington Methodist, Arlington, VA: http://beyonddc.com/features/god/_sh...pa100_5302.jpg Look closely. That's a gas station under it. |
St. Peters in Chicago. Located in the loop, it's situated between two skyscrapers. The rendering of Jesus on the front of the building always strikes me when I pass it. I can't walk to work without giving it a glance.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/...10610429_b.jpg St. Peter's Church - Chicago by bachnin, on Flickr http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/...78c89937_o.jpg St. Peter's Catholic Church, Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL by catholicsanctuaries, on Flickr |
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sedlec ossuary, prague
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/...261476f3_z.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbrard/4900446994/ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/...127dae93_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrefranklin/3074267792/ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/...740526ee_o.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/halvorbodin/3780821941/ |
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Heh. Hearing "badass church" makes me think of 'Monsignor Martinez' on King of the Hill. :jester:
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Brasilia Cathedral, by Oscar Niemeyer
http://www.chocolate-fish.net/albums...-outside-2.jpg http://www.chocolate-fish.net/img_-4240 http://www.brasiliabsb.com/catedral_wide.jpg http://www.brasiliabsb.com/photo_cathedral_wide.htm http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P3BvaDvVAy...rasilia_01.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P3BvaDvVAy...rasilia_01.jpg http://www.portalbrasil.net/2004/ima...l_interior.jpg http://www.portalbrasil.net/brasil/f...f_brasilia.htm |
^That is really strange looking. The ceiling looks animated.
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One of my favorite buildings
St. Basil's Cathedral says "Never mind stone or concrete colored churches, if you have any color paint it'll go somewhere."
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpa...sSouthSide.jpg (richard-seaman.com) There's also the intimidating but probably false tale that Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who ordered the church, blinded the architect so he could never create something more beautiful. Another, perhaps true, story is from the days when the Soviet Union was plowing huge avenues through old Moscow. City party boss Lazar Kaganovich was showing Stalin a model of the city, and took out the church to see how Red Square would look without it. Stalin immediately exclaimed, "Lazar, put it back!" When Stalin wants to save a church, you know it's one badass church. (I also associate it with this famous painting by Vasily Surikov, Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy, which is both a poignant image of Russia's often brutal history, and a vivid depiction of the severe consequences of crossing Peter the Great.) http://paintingspy.com/wp-content/ga...ikov/543-1.jpg (paintingspy.com) |
That Brasilia Cathedral looks like Space Mountain.
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It's no where near the biggest or baddest church in the world, but I've yet to personally visit a church as awe-inspiring as the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle in central Paris:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2271/...8b545e07_b.jpg Claudia Locally, I like the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak in Metro Detroit: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/...cf420b91_z.jpg Patricia Drury Also, not necessarily huge, but I have a thing for the gothic and romanesque catholic churches in around downtown Detroit... Sweetest Heart of Mary http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5253/...4847879e_z.jpg catholicsanctuaries St. Josaphat http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/3...3b2dad3e_z.jpg gsgeorge http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2260/...5c60a7ca_z.jpg markh0421 St. Joseph http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/...b964c285_z.jpg markh0421 Ste-Anne de Detroit http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/...b0c8f9e1_z.jpg kdlmphoto St. Mary http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/...6bed97ef_z.jpg Patricia Drury St. Florian (Hamtramck) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2360/...aa8ea3d7_o.jpg Rich-s Detroit catholics really loved them some red-brick. |
church in São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina state... does anyone else agree that this church is kinda Art Deco??
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/25...d4cea00553.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1039/...9be3b94f80.jpg http://static3.bareka.com/photos/med...418/centro.jpg http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...60&postcount=5 Fátima Church, in Fortaleza. The façade immitates two hands together praying http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...BFatima027.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...BFatima029.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...BFatima025.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...BFatima009.jpg http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...0&postcount=19 São Francisco Ordem Terceira Church, in Salvador, Brazil http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/...cb37b3.jpg?v=0 all covered in gold in the interior (like many baroque colonial churches in Brazil) http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...rgiodantas.jpg Flickr: sergiodantas http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...l_quimmico.jpg Flickr: papel_quimico http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...sa/nil3602.jpg http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...ssa/nil360.jpg http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...mrceloam91.jpg http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...ssa/lili_s.jpg http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...2&postcount=11 "Hairy Church", Pelotas, southern Brazil http://img250.echo.cx/img250/7071/pelotas0610zf5pp.jpg http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5212/cabeluda01.jpg photos by Farrapo http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...5&postcount=73 for more, check out these two threads at SSC with a HUGE collection of photos of brazilian churches, temples, cathedrals http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=570697 http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=888562 |
Damn! I was gonna post Sagrada Familia!
I think the Hagia Sophia is pretty badass.. http://www.dailyistanbultours.com/im...a_sophia_1.jpg http://www.sights-and-culture.com/Tu...gia-Sophia.jpg Not to mention the Pantheon (yes it is a church!): http://romeitaly.ca/images/pantheon.jpg http://www.polatkaya.net/PantheonInside.jpg |
The National Cathedral in Washington, DC has a number of non-traditional gargoyles. The most famous: Darth Vader.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1372/...85d06ace_z.jpg source: flickr user smata2 |
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