Your favourite churches...show us!

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I just had a chance to photograph St. Alban’s Church from the inside for myself. Note the beautiful, larger than life crucifix.(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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It’s just a shame the older ones don’t continue to use those amazing high altars!
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I was happy to see that a parish I used to visit has started using their high altar again, and what a magnificent high altar it is!

St. Dominic Church, San Francisco
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My old parish church before I moved house , the church where my mum’s and dad’s Funeral Masses were celebrated .

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The Church of St. John Chrysostom in nearby Inglewood as it appeared during Advent a few years ago

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I’ve always loved the architecture of Russian churches. My husband and I were fortunate to have gone there last year. Here’s a couple of pictures.

This is Assumption Cathedral in Rostov

And this is the Cathedral of The Dormition in Sergiev Posad.
Built in the 16th Century.
 
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The Anglican Shrine in Walsingham

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Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe Saint-Nicolas, Nice, France
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I visited Chartres’ Cathedral in 1961 on a beautiful July day .

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My first visit to the Sacre Coeur in Paris was in 1961 and I was there in 2007 .

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mrsdizzyd said:
I was happy to see that a parish I used to visit has started using their high altar again, and what a magnificent high altar it is!

St. Dominic Church, San Francisco
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Although it’s not used regularly, and only for the Extraordinary Form. This is a photograph from the Dominican Rite Mass which is only held on Monday evenings during Lent and Advent for the time being (Fr. Anselm Ramelow O.P. is almost always the celebrant as he is in this picture.) This just started last year and with each go around the turnout is larger and larger so hopefully one day the Dominican Rite will have a permanent spot on the schedule at St. Dom’s!

In the mean time, right across the bay at St. Albert’s Priory in Oakland (the Dominican House of Studies), the Dominican Rite is celebrated on First Saturdays in the morning sung by the friars. The reredos of their high altar is a bit more modest than St. Dominic’s but still beautiful:


Attending Mass there is a unique experience since there properly speaking is no nave to the church: the whole thing is one large chancel since, while open to the public, it is technically a chapel for religious brothers. Consequently there are no pews. It’s wall to wall choir stalls:


Just throwin that out there, @mrsdizzyd, for the next time you come home for a visit. 🙂
 
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Baltimore, Maryland. The Basilica is just two blocks from the church from my previous post, the National Shrine of Saint Alphonsus Liguori.

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And now on down to the crypt area;

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Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully I’ll make it out there this year. It’s a shame that beautiful high altar at St. Dom’s isn’t used more.
 
Do you know the name of that big stone Episcopal church in SF over in Pac Heights? It looks like an old Romanesque/Norman cathedral one might find in medieval England. Ringing any bells?
 
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