Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, Temples. From every corner of the world, enjoy astounding complexity, graceful simplicity and don’t miss the Buddhist amusement park in Vietnam.

Church of Spilt Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia, By Walter Bibikow

St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope, North Carolina, USA

Ceiling at Abuhov Synagogue, Israel by Shmuel Bar-Am

Qolsharif Mosque, Kazan, Russia

Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie Poland

Vatican spiral staircase

Temples of Wat Arun in Bangkok, Thailand

church in the country of Georgia

Cathedral of Maringá, Brazil

Church of the Assumption of Mary – Lake Bled – Slovenia

Putra Mosque, Malaysia by Kukoq Nyoq

Buddhist temple, Japan

Great towers, Budapest

Gloucester Cathedral, England

Cross Island Chapel, NY.

Geneva, Switzerland Synagogue

Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain

Lancut, Poland

Suspended temple, Thailand

Shwedagon-Paya-–-Yangon-Myanmar

Catholic church from 12th century, Serbia

Magen David, Bombay, India

The Synagogue of Brasov, Romania

Air Force Academy Chapel. Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tallinn Synagogue, Estonia

Jumeirah Mosque, Dubai

Church in Yosemite, CA

Church of Saint Nicholas in Izmailovo, Russia

Bogrund Stave Church – Norway

Peterhof, Russia

Or Torah Synagogue, Tunisia

Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Phugtal Monastery, India

Shiva Temple, Puthia, Bangladesh

medieval monastery dug from rock, Romania

Church of Saint Nicholas in Khamovniki, Russia

Mosque in Porto-Nove, Benin

Jubilee Synagogue, aka, The Jerusalem Street Synagogue, Prague, Czech Republic

Spiral Minaret, Samarra, Iraq. Some historians believe it pre-dates 835 AD.

Six of Prambanan’s eight main shrines, Java, Indonesia. By kashikar on flickr

Christ Anglican Church, Stellarton, Nova Scotia

synogogue, Subotica, Serbia

New Jerusalem Monastery, Istra, Russia

Jalil Al Khayat Mosque, Erbil, Iraq

Church on Sifnos Island, Greece.

Temple of the Emerald Buddha – Bangkok – Thailand

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

The Church of St. Andrew in Grand Zayatsky, Russia

New and First ever Buddhist amusement park, Vietnam

Las Lajas Cathedral, Colombia

Blue Mosque at Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan

Temple Deep in the Caves, Borneo, Indonesia by Trey Ratcliff

Benedictine Monastery, Monserrat, Barcelona, Spain

Ohel Yitzchak synogogue, Israel

The Unitarian Church, Charleston, South Carolina,
USA

Meteora on the Greek mainland, collection of six monasteries sitting atop limestone rocks many centuries ago.

St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral – Cork, Ireland

The Temple in Beijing within the Forbidden City

San Bernabe Monastery, Ojo Guareña, Spain (by Javi Diez Porras).

Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary

Hsinbyume Pagoda – Mingun, Burma

Congregational mosque, shah-I-zinda, Samarqand, Uzbekistan.


St. Nicolae Church, Bucharest, Romania

Jameh Mosque, Yazd, Iran


Sun Temple, Modhera, India

Synagogue in Berlin, Germany

Temple Complex, Bagan, Myanmar

Spiral Staircase, St.Etienne du Mont, Paris, France

Peralaserry Shree Subramania Temple tank, India

Church of the Annunciation in Taininskoye, Russia

The Golden Temple – Amritsar, India

Church of St. George in Lalibela, Ethiopia was hewn from monolithic blocks in the 12th century. These blocks were further chiselled out, forming doors, windows, columns, various floors, roofs etc. This gigantic work was further completed with an extensive system of drainage ditches, trenches and ceremonial passages, some with openings to hermit caves and catacombs.

Adath Israel synogogue, Kentucky, USA


Ubudiah Mosque,Malaysia

St.Sava Orthodox Cathedral in Belgrade, Serbia
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple,
pray in your church.
For you and I are children of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Wow. These are all really amazing.
Thanks Dusky.
“The Architecture of Spiritual Spaces”
they are always awe inspiring, have grandeur of scale ,great artistic treasures, once inside serenity makes you feel at peace with oneself.
Most common feature of these structures is something that points towards heaven ( unknown) by means of a cross, a shikhara, spires!
But they are great examples of human creativity, salute to the architects, artisans who conceived, and constructed them.
the one in uzbekstain is shah-I-zinda, Samarqand, not Bukhara. great collection though
This is a truly amazing collection. Some I recognize from my travels and feel very privileged to have seen them.
Amazing! really enjoyed seeing each one. Grateful that one of my friends forwarded this to me. Each of us is a child of God. As Jesus Christ said, in my Father’s house there are many mansions. These spiritual spaces reveal the character of many religions. We worth seeing!
Let’s all remember that ” my religion” is not the only “right belief”. To believe is peaceful!, it maters not what I believe. Vivian Kunkel
In wood and stone, God’s presence is revealed
When we worship, beauty and grandeur is our reward.
The loveliest temple, the human form, houses the soul,
These pictures are wonderful and I am surprised that some of these countries still have these churches still standing after the fighting that has gone on in some of these areas.
Wow these are just amazing ..I now feel I must see Russia
So beautiful and the colors are just breath taking Thank you.
Ok!!!
All very beautiful. Check out cathedral in Reykjavik, Iceland. Just as impressive with a Lego model of the church inside.
Catholic church from 12th century, Serbia is not Catholic, but Orthodox Church. It was named by the people because of the Catholic merchants from Dubrovnik, which was used it in the 16th century on their journeys.
Branko,
Thank you for the historical correction. That’s very interesting to me.