The beautiful church thread: please post photos / links to beautiful Catholic churches!

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How did we let this thread die? Anyway, here is the Basilica of St. Clement, in Rome. The Church is staffed by Irish Dominicans, interestingly enough, who came here after they were expelled from Ireland during the English Reformation. The original basilica was built back in the 300’s, but was destroyed in 1084 during the Norman Sack of Rome, and was rebuilt in the Middle Ages.

The first picture is of the vault over the nave in the interior; the second picture is of the interior of the church looking towards the high altar. Absolutely imposing, this one is. One day I’ll go here, God willing.
 
Returning to the United States, here is the Mission Santa Barbara Chapel:



Its a Franciscan mission not far from Santa Barbara, California, founded in 1812. The current sanctuary was built in 1820, and it hasn’t been changed much at all. How’s that for a sight?
 
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I’m not quite sure if this is the right section to post this, but I just wanted to share the marvelous Church of the Sorrowful Mother of God belonging to the Franciscan Monastery Weggental near Rottenburg in south-western Germany. I visited it yesterday for the first time and was just stunned.
It’s very interesting that you have this island of Catholicism in the almost completly protestant state of Wuerttemberg. The reason for this is that Rottenburg and the sorrounding areas did belong to Austria up to the beginning of the 19th century, so they haved stayed Catholic all the time. Rottenburg is also the seat of the bishop of the diocese of Rottenburg/Stuttgart.
You can look at pictures in this album: kloster-weggental.de/bilder/thumbnails.php?album=13

God Bless !
 
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Hello !

I’m not quite sure if this is the right section to post this, but I just wanted to share the marvelous Church of the Sorrowful Mother of God belonging to the Franciscan Monastery Weggental near Rottenburg in south-western Germany. I visited it yesterday for the first time and was just stunned.
It’s very interesting that you have this island of Catholicism in the almost completly protestant state of Wuerttemberg. The reason for this is that Rottenburg and the sorrounding areas did belong to Austria up to the beginning of the 19th century, so they haved stayed Catholic all the time. Rottenburg is also the seat of the bishop of the diocese of Rottenburg/Stuttgart.
You can look at pictures in this album: kloster-weggental.de/bilder/thumbnails.php?album=13

God Bless !
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Very beautiful church. Thanks so much for link! 🙂
 
I like how much light comes in. I know that many churches in Europe can be very dark. And it is refreshing to see one that is so bright.

The painting above the altar is dark though…is that Jesus being taken down from the cross?

Thanks so much for sharing. I so enjoy seeing pic’s of traditional churches; my church here is in the school and modern.

Elizabeth
 
I’m glad you all like this church as much as I do. Thanks for the replies.

Elizabeth: Yes, it is a depiction of Jesus being taken down from the cross, the painter remains unknown today though,

Interestingly, there are also pictures of St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Franz Xaver at the sides of the altar because the church was originally run by the Jesuits, until their prohibition 1773.

The Franciscans run this monastery and church for 90 years now.

God Bless !
 
That is a beautiful church, tobad they don’t build them like this anymore.
 
I know what you mean. I can’t stand most of modern church architecture, especially those Catholic churches here in the “protestant diaspora” which were mainly built in the late 60s / early 70s.
That it is still possible and affordable to build traditional looking churches with all the decoration and statutes of the saints and so on shows the FSSPX chapel which was consecrated in 1999. Also a very beautiful church.
You can see some pictures of the chapel under this link: piusbruderschaft.de/distrikt/zentren/545

God Bless !

PS: It would be great to see some of the jewels of your region 🙂
 
St Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church, Eureka Springs Arkansas USA
 
You guys are doing something right down there in the Tristate area!
 
While not a catholic church, Heinz Chapel is a beautiful building on the grounds of the University of Pittsburgh. The stained glass there is amazing, and they have a full pipe organ!







There are four sets of stained glass, each one 72 feet long, the longest anywhere.
 
So you added Florianus’ little thread to this huge dead one; full of such large pictures you have to scroll every which way to navigate through the thread. Florianus’ was asking for pic’s of jewels in our own area’s. Not picture’s of some obscure church no one has ever seen or been to before except in a picture.
 
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