Show you local churches

[Sixpack]

and I'll show you mine (of main touristic interest that is):

Haarlem:
http://noordhollandchurches.tripod.com/haarlem.html

Velsen:
http://noordhollandchurches.tripod.com/velsenzuidherv.html

8th century orginally, can you believe it ? only 3 kilometers from my house.

Churches after all are major tourist attractions in Europe.

A Canadian one time said to me: "You have Cathedrals, we have the Rockies". Spot on he was. :lol:

[Kapitan]

I have three church's in my parish as now i live in a little village on the out skirts of basildon.

One is very sercluded and is right out on a marsh, the next one is on the main road which is more of a chapel, and the last one is on a farm two of them cannot be used and one is being pulled down.

[StdDev]

I invite everyone to My Church (http://www.subgenius.com/)

[STEED]

I invite everyone to My Church (http://www.subgenius.com/)

Were is it?

[Kapitan]

Wow i want one ! i want to be a minister :D

[STEED]

Wow i want one ! i want to be a minister :D

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Kapitan]

Why is it so funny?

[STEED]

And how are you going to take the early service. As I remember from another post you don’t like getting up in the morning. I suppose you could do the evening one if you’re not to drunk.

[StdDev]

Wow i want one ! i want to be a minister :D

All things are possible with BOB! (http://stores.ebay.com/SubGenius-Foundation-Factory-Outlet)

[Kapitan]

but i do get up in the mornings :D sadly i have to, and im not always drunk burrrrp.

[STEED]

Happy days are here again. :sunny:

[Happy Times]

Churches from Western Finland. Turkuhttp://www.mit.jyu.fi/tjlahton/2005/turku-pietarsaari/ietu/isot/P1010868-Turun_tuomiokirkko.jpghttp://kivikirkko.aboense.org/kuvat/Tuomiokirkon_keskilaivab.jpgHalikko http://kivikirkko.aboense.org/kuvat/hal_ulkokuvab.jpgKalantihttp://kivikirkko.aboense.org/kuvat/Kalanti_ulk.jpghttp://kivikirkko.aboense.org/kuvat/Kalanti_sis.jpgNousiainen (note the WW2 wargraves in the foreground, they can be found in every parish)http://kivikirkko.aboense.org/kuvat/Nous_etela.jpgAnd a good link in English, if someone is interested. It has pictures of Finnish churches, castles, fortresses and manor houses. http://www.muuka.com/finnishpumpkin/index.html

[Fish]

Not sure it counts, but this is our lighthouse. :up:

http://home.hccnet.nl/wico.p/vuurtoren2.jpg

[Happy Times]

Not sure it counts, but this is our lighthouse. :up:

http://home.hccnet.nl/wico.p/vuurtoren2.jpgI really like light houses. :up:

[Sixpack]

First of all, great looking church there, HT :up: Alas the other images didnt show.

As for lighthouses. This is 'mine' at the nearby port of IJmuiden:

Light @53 m above mid level between high tide and low tide.

http://www.vuurtorens.net/afbeeldingen/kustverlichting/gegevens/195.jpg

[Fish]

First of all, great looking church there, HT :up: Alas the other images didnt show.

As for lighthouses. This is 'mine' at the nearby port of IJmuiden:

Light @53 m above mid level between high tide and low tide.

http://www.vuurtorens.net/afbeeldingen/kustverlichting/gegevens/195.jpg

Yeah, I know here, she is a beauty! :yep:

[STEED]

Great slide show all :up:

[Happy Times]

Alas the other images didnt show. What images?? In my opinion the coolest lighthouse in Finland is the Bengtskär light house. Scandinavias tallest lighthouse its 52 meters above the sea.http://www.bengtskar.fi/images/parhiala.JPG Its a tourist atraction and has its own web pages. http://www.bengtskar.fi/ More lighthouses in this link, just click the links on the left. http://www.fma.fi/vapaa_aikaan/majakat/

[CCIP]

I love that Finnish architecture! It always struck me as very appropriately northern-looking, but at the same time not grim. The Finns always seemed to know how to build :yep:

[Sixpack]

I love that Finnish architecture! It always struck me as very appropriately northern-looking, but at the same time not grim. The Finns always seemed to know how to build :yep:

My thoughts exactly.

The buildings have a great mystique and tough look. I like 'em a lot :yep:

[Happy Times]

Thank you both for your kind words, CCIP should visit Finland, discover your roots. ;)

[Sixpack]

Still waiting for Konovalov's mosq........ :|\

[Bort]

Not too many notable churches around these parts, but here's the local Lighthouse. Chicago Harbor Light. The Coast Guard rented it out to some rich guy after it was automated in the 60's and 70's, but he got tired of the isolation (it's on the end of a free-standing breakwater). Heckuva view though...
http://www.nmc.edu/news/2005/images/chicago-lighthouse.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tangsphoto/ChicagoHarborLight_55083.jpg

[CCIP]

Thank you both for your kind words, CCIP should visit Finland, discover your roots. ;)

It's high on my list (right after Germany and the Czech Republic, which I'm hoping to visit in the next year if I'm lucky). :yep:

Technically, according to you I've been in Finland many times already, every year until I was 14 in fact (Karelia. That's where my Finnish ancestors were from, too) :P

***

Not my current area, but here's my favorite:

St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg
(the largest Orthodox church in the world, I believe)
http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/1497/stisaacs1od.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/112/stisaacs1pix3eo.jpg
Several of the mosaics in this picture (a couple in the circular row on the top) have been made by my great-great-grandfather, a remarkable artist in his own right (and, ironically, later a high-ranking Bolshevik). :hmm:

[Happy Times]

Kind of reminds me of the Helsinki Cathedral, its Lutheran though. http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/Gallery/Travel/Finland/Nicholas-Cathedral/cat-1.jpgWe have Ortodox one also, the Uspensk Cathedral.http://www.londonbustransport.com/17_2.jpg

[Konovalov]

Still waiting for Konovalov's mosq........ :|\

My local masjid near my home is just a plain building like any other built in the 70's as such. So nothing special here. I do however love visiting churchs and mosques that were built way back in history not to mention castles and stately homes of which there are plenty in abundance here in the UK. I have been a member of the Australian and now the British National trust for many years. I guess ever since I went with my mum to see a performance of Handel's Messiah at Adelaide Cathedral in Australia back in 1991 I have loved the architecture of churchs. Here are some shots of some I took whilst in Paris last year. Roma also had some great churchs.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e323/BenKonovalov/P1010628.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e323/BenKonovalov/P1010580.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e323/BenKonovalov/P1010518.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e323/BenKonovalov/P1010519.jpg

[Kapitan]

that reminds me of my trips to egypt and turkey i must find them pictures especialy of the Al sopiha and tomb of muhamed ali.

[Bort]

that reminds me of my trips to egypt and turkey i must find them pictures especialy of the Al sopiha and tomb of muhamed ali.

The boxer? :-j