Take Me To The Church

Every city, every township and every community in all the world have churches and cathedrals that make up the core of who it is. It’s the joy in finding these places and learning their stories♥️. Peace.

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Notre Dame de Nice ✨

📸 September 2017; beautiful Catholic Church and basilica in Nice, France 🇫🇷

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The Pink Church, a Lutheran church established in 1888..has the absolute best history!

Built to house a congregation of Swedish and Norwegians—but they were quarreling by the time it was completed and so when they both wanted to hold Sunday school masses it came to a head 😳..most of the Norwegian congregation left..and in the 1960’s it was moved from Climax mine to Leadville..it was then used by Baptist’s until they had a new church built..then it was sold and used as a dance school and painted pink. It’s quite a colorful history.

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St Patrick’s Cathedral ✝️🙏🏼💜

NYC 🇺🇸

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Isla Mujeres 🇲🇽

Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción

A lovely Catholic Church at city’s center ✝️

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This is how I will always know the most spiritual and serene place I have encountered in all my travels; this cathedral in the middle of the bustling city ✝️💜prayers for Paris and for first responders as they save the Notre Dame 🙏🏼 #notredamedeparis #parisfrance #parisparis #notredameparis #beautifuldestinations #2012

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Basilica du Sacré-Coeur
Paris 🇫🇷 
A most fascinating church that sits high on a hill in Montmartre..overlooking Paris. Magnifique!
The bustle of the market is such a contrast to the spiritualness of the church.

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St Charles Borromeo Antwerp, Belguim, Netherlands 🇱🇺 This beautiful church has a rich and interesting history: *Built in 1626 as the Jesuit church of Antwerp, it was the first church in the world dedicated to Ignatius Loyola, the Jesuit founder. *in the early 1600’s Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens was commissioned to paint altar pieces and ceiling pieces. Most were destroyed by fire in 1718. *The highly decorated naves got the attention of the current Pope who sent a letter telling them to stop spending money. *In the early 1800’s, for a short time during the Dutch reign preceeding Belguims’s Independence, its interior was scaled back and sobered to make it a Protestant church. *Another fire in 2009 left the church without pews (mostly due to smoke and water damage) being replaced with these fun chairs temporarily. *In June 2017, after a 240-year absence, Rubens artwork, “The Return of the Holy Family” came back to the chapel of St Joseph near the Chancel. I’m glad it’s back. ⛪️

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🙏🏼🙏🏼 The Painted Church St Benedict’s Catholic Church On the big island of Hawaii Worth the journey..truly a spiritually uplifting place.