Your favourite churches...show us!

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2 years ago, I had the privilege of being sent (briefly) to Munich for work, although I stayed in a hotel in Freising, north of Munich. Little did I know at the time that the cathedral in that town was the very church in which Pope Benedict XVI was ordained a priest! Enjoy!
 
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That’s the one! I used to live by it and never tired of seeing it. It’s so formidable in person you just can’t help but stare up at it walking by.
 
Im struggling to find an image online that truly does justice to its beautiful facade. These are the closest I’ve found:

Nidaros Cathedral (Lutheran)
Trondheim, Norway
 
In honor of my favorite Saint. The Basilica of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, France.

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In June 1944 the D-Day invasion began. And in their attempt to liberate France from German occupation, the allies bombed the living daylights out of Lisieux and the surrounding areas. And the Carmel was smack-dab in the middle of it. Several 500 pounders found their way into the monastery grounds setting several buildings ablaze. Mother Agnes of Jesus and Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face (both sisters of St. Therese) and the rest of the nuns were forced to leave the Carmel and take cover in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Therese of Lisieux. Here is several pictures of the basilica during that time frame;

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Basilica of Our Lady of La Salette in France

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Thank you to everyone for posting these photos - I’ve enjoyed looking at them very much. If you attend Mass at any of these you are very blessed!
 
A church in Pompei built by a former Satanist: Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii.

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Thank God for his conversion. I want to visit here.
 
Aylesford Priory in Kent where I have stayed a couple of times .

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thanks you for the dicovery of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the BVM, Baltimore.
And the pictures of the crypt!
These sort of architecture is all new for me, as an European.
From the exterior, I don’t find, apart small crosses, it look like a church (from what I am used to see in my country!).

I see neoclassical influence with ionic columns in the entry, cupola that remids me of Muslin and Russian Orthodox architecture.

Are churches in America are ad orientem to the East? As our old one (not necessary thoses built in the XXth, XXIth century?)
Sorry for the stupid question!
 
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Parochial enclosure are something that is found only in Brittany (France). They were built in the XVI-XVIIth century, at a time of prosperity.

We have the Pleyben enclosure, that have all the elements of all parochial enclosure that are:
  • a wall (that separate the secular from the sacred place, and the world of living from the world of death)
  • The door is usually triomphant and a symbolism of this passage
    (not the case here!)
  • a monumental calvary
  • an ossuary to gather bones, after exhumations in the cemetery
  • a church
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detail of the calvary

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ossuary

The churches in Brittany are built from the local stone, Granite, that are very heavy. That’s why churches are less high than others churches made from limestone, such as Notre-Dame de paris, Notre-Dame de Chartres…
 
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The most beautiful Orthodox Church in the US as far as I’m concerned!

ZP
 
I can’t say that I’ve seen enough in the US to judge that statement, but I will say I’m very fortunate having that temple of God being my first real exposure to Orthodoxy. I was a catechumen there for a few months before I eventually went with Rome… at a parish right down the street. You wanna talk about ecumenism? When they were undergoing renovations to their temple we “let” them pray Vespers at our church. I put “let” in quotes because, let’s be real, our Latin Catholic church benefited a great deal by having that angelic choir sing Vespers every Sunday for two months, even if in Old Church Slavonic. They had our Schola come sing for them a few months later. We colaborate constantly for pro-life endeavors. We send spokespeople (priests) to their Easter/Pentecost/etc. and they do to ours every single year. As far as we’re all concerned we’re sister churches.
 
Ecumenism is alive and well at the grass roots level! We are Sister Churches and both your communities prove that. Thanks for sharing that wonderful story. It’s stories like this that should give us all hope!

ZP
 
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