I recently posted Share Our World: The Amitabha Stupa and Peace Park and @itwithsm asked an interesting question.
I was searching on the internet about religion and I was shocked to see that there are almost 4000 active religions in the world, and there is a race, every religion is claiming to be the rightest religion. I want to ask you how many religious places have you visited till now like this?
I am interested in different world religions, so much that I took a world religion class in college. I have also enjoyed learning about religions as I study art history.
Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the religious buildings I go to most are the temples.
Wednesday Walk: Mesa Temple Lights
Share Our World: DC Temple
Art Talk: Mesa Temple and Colonial Revival Architecture
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In addition to the temples above, I have highlighted 10 different religious places I have visited in Italy, Norway, Arizona, California, Washington DC, New York City in the past 10 years.
As I was making this post I realized that I also frequent Roman Catholic religious buildings quite often too.
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy (Roman Catholic)
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Baptistry in Florence, Italy (Roman Catholic)
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San Xavier del Bac (Roman Catholic)
Share Our World: The White Dove of the Desert
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Grace Church, New York City (Episcopal)
Art Talk: Grace Church and Gothic Revival Architecture
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Memorial Church at Sandford University (Non-denominational)
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Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal)
Share Our World: Washington National Cathedral
Art Talk: Resurrection Chapel at the National Cathedral
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Oslo Cathedral (Lutheran)
Share Our World: High Mass at the 17th Century Oslo Cathedral
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Gol Stave Church (Christian)
Share Our World: Gol Stave Church
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The Amitabha Stupa and Peace Park (Buddhist)
Share Our World: The Amitabha Stupa and Peace Park
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We visited the Church of the Holy Cross while in Sedona, Arizona
Church of the Holy Cross (Roman Catholic)
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Note: I have taken pictures of many more religious buildings. For this post I wanted to highlight places in which I had a significant experience and if they were visited in the years since I have been blogging I included the post!
If you are interested in religious places/ buildings there are two Hivers that have done awesome work in documenting religious buildings- @jarvie and @laurabellamy
Here is a link to 2000 religous buildings from @jarvie Faith in America tour. He went on a road trip and documented religious buildings in all 50 states.
@laurabellamy has a great project called 1000 Holy Places. This recent video In Which We View 25 Holy Places in America is one of her best. Laura has such a great voice and the details and pictures she shares of each religious place is so interesting.
Thanks for asking @itwithsm. It has been great to look back at my experiences with religious places in the past 10 years and to share info for other Hivers that I follow that have a passion for religious places.
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Thanks for creating this post @sjarvie5, these are some wonderful places, I want to ask another question, haven't you visited any Islamic prayer places? Islamic places are enrich in art and architecture.
No I haven't. I would love to go to an Islamic place!
You should visit one. You will enjoy it for sure.