Most Beautiful Christian Monuments

[Menydh]

A hermit-church near to home.

[M.R.]

This is the church in which I was baptized,

[Ferran]

Some of the few Hispano-Visigothic churches that persisted until today:

San Juan de Baños (VII century)






San Pedro de la Nave (VII century)






Santa Comba de Bande (VII century)




Santa María de Quintanilla de las Viñas (VII or VIII centuries)

[PermCity]

Christian Orthodox Church in Nalchik (capital of Kabardino - Balkaria, muslim state at the South of Russia) where I was baptized



Christian Orthodox Church in Perm City (Ural region) near house I live in

[Laocoon]

@Theobald : Saint Denis isn't a Cathedral but an a royal Abbey as far as I know.

Nothing better than a good Gothic Cathedral (a typical French thing, a style born in Ile-de-France ).

Beauvais, Saint Pierre (the highest gothic choir in the world)







A not well known basilica visited by Jehann d'Arc in her time :

Saint Nicolas de Port




In Occitania (that is southern France for the incult(s) ) :

Abbey of Senanque







A huge pic

Abbey of Silvacane








Mont Saint Michel, Normandy (some say it's Brittany)







Chapel of Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe (Le Puy en velay, Auvergne)









The cloitre of Le Puy

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

In Occitania (that is southern France for the incult(s) )

You are right. The incults call it Southern France!

Very beautiful. Very.. Iberianid.

Mont Saint Michel, Normandy (some say it's Brittany)

Breton Irredentists!

[Laocoon]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Very beautiful. Very.. Iberianid.

Basically, it's Roman style, not Iberian. You cheater.

Saint Sernin, Toulouse







Albi, fortified Sainte Cécile cathedral

Breton Irredentists!

This is far too controversial for me.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Basically, it's Roman style, not Iberian. You cheater.

Ibero-Roman if you don't mind.

This is far too controversial for me.

Irredentism

[svin]

Borgund stave church, Norway


Garmo stave church


Urnes stave church

[Laocoon]

One surprising church: pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk on Zelena Hora in Zdar nad Sazavou (Czech Republic).










The two others are in Czechia, no idea where though... Untypical, like the other.

[Ederico]

In St. John's Co-Cathedral in La Valletta, Malta. - Painting is by Caravaggio.



Otto Settembre monument, commemorating victory over the Turks, after a 3 month summer siege in 1565. The Turks invaded with around 45,000 troops against around a few hundred Knights of Malta and 9,000 Maltese able to fight. The Siege lasting 3 hot summer months with thousands of deaths, ended, as far as I know as soon as the decimated Turks noticed approaching Italian and Spanish troops arriving from Sicily. The monument, erected in the 1920s, was done in order to celebrate the Otto Settembre, back then considered by Maltese nationalists as the national holiday.



The interior of St. John's Co-Cathedral, the pavimento features some of the tombs of some Knights of Malta.

That's enough for now.

[Angyal]

St Vitus Cathedtral, Praha, People Republic of Chehia

[Behelit]

Mounth Athos in Greece

[svin]

I think these photos captures the spirit of Old Orthodox Rus quite well.

From Chernigov, Ukraine, Ekaterininskaya church. No specific reasons for posting.

[Delbáeth]

Various from around Scotland:

[King of Hassia]

Some german churches


The Kölner Dom(catholic)




The Ulmer Münster(protestant), with 161.5m the highest church of the world




The Speyerer Dom(catholic), the biggest romanic church of the world