New on 500px : Kloster Maulbronn by Bulgaria by Bulgaria

This is the church in Maulbronn Monastery, Germany. The entire place is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
HERE is a photo from a fountain inside the monastery.

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New on 500px : Peaceful and Historical Bled by csillogo11 by csillogo11

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New on 500px : Monastery Maria Krönung by ludwigriml by ludwigriml

Church interior of the monastary Maria Krönung, Traunkirchen, Austria

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New on 500px : Under the Dome of Light by faker002 by faker002

Under the dome of the Church of Resurrection or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (Al Quds).

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New on 500px : Beauty Of The Baroque by gehazel by gehazel

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Church in Syracuse (Sicily).

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New on 500px : Iglesia de Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona by dleiva by dleiva

Dawn in Santa Maria del Mar Church, Barcelona dleiva.com/

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New on 500px : Gothic by KAI-H by KAI-H

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New on 500px : Sunset over Nidarosdomen by Aziz_Nasuti by Aziz_Nasuti

Nidaros Cathedral is a Church of Norway, located in the city of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Built over the burial site of Saint Olaf, the king of Norway in the 11th century, who became the patron saint of the nation.

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New on 500px : Chapel of Saint Petka, Belgrade by tosicbojan by tosicbojan

Chapel of Saint Petka (Facade)

The church is located in the Upper Town of Belgrade Fortress, very close to the Rose Church. It was built on top of a spring that is believed to be miraculous, on the site of an old chapel built after 1867. The current chapel was built in 1937 to the design of architect Momir Korunović.

It was completed on St Petka’s Day (also known as Paraskeva) and the spring waters are believed to be beneficial to women. Its interior walls and arches are covered with mosaics, created between 1980 and 1983 by artist Đuro Radulović.

When the foundations were being dug, numerous bones were found belonging to Serbian soldiers who had perished in the defence of Belgrade 1914-1915, which were transferred to a specially-built ossuary in the walls beneath Jakšić’s Tower.

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New on 500px : Ružica Church( Црква Ружица) by tosicbojan by tosicbojan

Ružica Church (Serbian: Црква Ружица, Little Rose Church) is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the Kalemegdan Fortress, in Belgrade, Serbia. A church of the same name existed on the site in the time of Stefan Lazarević. It was demolished in 1521 by the invading Ottoman Turks. The church was used as a gunpowder magazine in the 18th century, and was converted into a military church between 1867 and 1869. Heavily damaged during the First World War, the church was renovated in 1925. The iconostasis was carved by Kosta Todorović, and the icons painted by Rafailo Momčilović. The walls were covered in paintings by Andrej Bicenko, a Russian artist.

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New on 500px : Temple of Saint Sava (Belgrade) 2 by tosicbojan by tosicbojan

The church is dedicated to St. Sava, founder of the Serbian church and an important figure in medieval Serbia. The temple has been built on the Vračar plateau, on the location where, in 1595, St. Sava’s remains are thought to have been burned by Turkish Sinan Pasha. From its location, the temple dominates Belgrade’s skyline and is perhaps the most monumental building in the city. The building of the church structure has been financed exclusively by donations. The parish home is nearby, as will be the planned patriarchal building.
The construction of the temple completes Belgrade’s skyline: Kalemegdan – Trg republike – Terazij – Beograđanka – Slavija – Temple of St. Sava. The temple’s main dome rises to a height of 134 metres (439.6 ft), from a level of 64 metres 210 ft above the Sava river. The church, thus, holds a dominant position in skyline of Belgrade and is visible from all approaches to the city.
The church building is 91 m (298.5 ft) long from east to west, and 81 m (265.7 ft) wide from north to south. The temple is 70 m (229.65 ft) high, and the dome is topped by the main gold-plated cross raising another 12 metres (39.4 ft). The lesser domes are topped by 18 more gold-plated crosses of various sizes, while the bell towers hold 49 bells.
The surface area of the ground floor is 3,500 square metres with three galleries: one of 1,500 square metres in area on the first level, a 120 square metre gallery on the second level, and a choir gallery that holds 800 singers. The temple can hold 10,000 faithful at any one time. The basement contains a crypt, the treasury of St. Sava, and the grave church of St. Hieromartyr Lazar, with a total surface area of 1.800 square metres.
The façade of the temple is done in white marble and granite. The inner decoration is being done as mosaics. The central dome will contain a mosaic of Christ Pantocrator. To give a sense of the monumental scale of this mosaic, each eye will be about 3 metres wide.

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