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Angels of Waverley Cemetery, Sydney

fabian foo — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:17:12 +0000

Perched atop cliffs in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Waverley Cemetery must be one of the most spectacularly located cemeteries anywhere in the world. It is noted for its ornate tombs, headstones and funerary sculpture – angels are particularly popular.

Notable Australians buried here include Australia’s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton, poet Henry Lawson and cricketer Victor Trumper.

Filed under: australia, christianity, religion, sydney Tagged: angels, australia, cemetery, sculpture, stone, sydney, waverley

La Compania de Jesus, Arequipa

fabian foo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:36:26 +0000

The ornate facade illustrates the so-called Baroque Mestizo style of church architecture found in the Peruvian Andes.

Posted in architecture, christianity, peru, religion Tagged: andes, architecture, arequipa, baroque, carving, christianity, church, facade, mestizo, ornate, peru, religion, stone

Santa Catalina Convent, Arequipa

fabian foo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:36:52 +0000

Nuns still live and pray within its brightly coloured walls. Arequipa, Peru.

Posted in architecture, christianity, peru, religion Tagged: arequipa, blue, christianity, colours, convent, peru, red, roman catholicism, santa catalina

St Peter’s Basilica, Rome

fabian foo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:09:13 +0000

The baldacchino and immense dome of the largest church in the world. St Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Palace remain the ultimate symbols of the incredible heights of opulence, wealth and waste that the Roman Catholic Church reached during the 16th century.

Posted in architecture, christianity, italy Tagged: architecture, baldacchino, baroque, christianity, church, dome, europe, italy, religion, roman catholicism, rome, st peter's basilica, vatican

Monasteries of Meteora, Greece

fabian foo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:37:42 +0000

Built between five hundred to a thousand years ago, the monks and hermits of the Greek Orthodox Church sought ever more remote and difficult-to-reach places from where to pray and contemplate.

Hence their position amongst these spectacular sandstone rock formations in central Greece.

Nowadays a sealed road links all the monasteries and they are as much tourist museums as they are living monasteries.

Posted in christianity, europe, greece, history, landscape, religion Tagged: architecture, christianity, europe, greece, greek orthodox church, meteora, monastery, religion, sandstone

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Istanbul

fabian foo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:13:40 +0000

The iconostasis of the Church of St George, within the grounds of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul.

The Greek presence in Turkey is now small, but the Ecumenicl Patriarchate still serves at the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church for believers in Greece and scattered all over the world. It claims its beginnings from the Apostle St Andrew.

The two-headed eagle in the centre of the picture is a symbol from the Byzantine Empire, representing the twin role of the Byzantine Emperor, as head both of the Church and the State.

Posted in christianity, europe, history, religion, turkey Tagged: church, constantinople, ecumenical patriarchate, europe, gold, greek orthodox church, iconostasis, istanbul, religion, turkey

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

fabian foo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:22:04 +0000

Hagia Sophia. Santa Sophia. Aya Sofya. Church of Holy Wisdom. Has any other church in the world been witness to so many monumental events in history? The eruption of the Great Schism. The sacking of Constantinople by the Crusaders. The fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks.

Rebuilt many times over the years, this landmark of architecture is now a museum, constantly being restored.

Posted in architecture, christianity, europe, history, islam, religion, turkey Tagged: architecture, art, aya sofya, basilica, byzantine, christ, church, constantinople, europe, hagia sophia, history, istanbul, madonna, mary, mosaic, mosque, turkey