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[RichardB]

Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada

its along the Alaska-Canadian highway from Dawson Creek British Columbia to Fairbanks Alaska

it was closed when we went through Beaver Creek. its the last stop before the Canada-US border crossing about 20 miles to the north, and then its another 300 miles to the end, in Fairbanks Alaska

theres a small housing area adjacent to the border crossing where the agents live. there are no services there though.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Catholic church this small.

 

[Blackbird]

St. Simon's monastery, curved into the rock, Cairo.
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Looks quite spectacular.

 

[inphoto]

Looks quite spectacular.

Indeed, quite large monastery, definitely worth the ride through a poor Christian neighbourhood where they collect garbage for recycling. The dirt and smell was unbelievable, luckily there's no street crime in Egypt.

 

[inphoto]

 

[RichardB]

Indeed, quite large monastery, definitely worth the ride through a poor Christian neighbourhood where they collect garbage for recycling. The dirt and smell was unbelievable, luckily there's no street crime in Egypt.

I remember you talked about it before, posted pics. I can't imagine what it must be like to live there. Just horrible.

 

[inphoto]

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

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The trees seem to be painted white? I just saw it in the tree thread as well. Why is that, inphoto?

 

[inphoto]

It's CaO solution, burnt lime, caustic, to keep the insects on the ground. Quite often seen in pavements, walls and trees in the Greek Islands mainly.

 

[Stiga]

Somewhere in Venice. There are small churches all over Venice

 

[NixEre]

The Church of Our Saviour, in Christianshavn, Copenhagen. Finished in 1696, but the spire is from 1752.

Work your way up that outside staircase and it’s a fantastic view of the city!

The story goes that the architect of the spire jumped to his death off the top as the spire went the wrong way … all false news as he died in his bed and anyway surely he would have bounced on the stairs below …

 

[Blackbird]

The Church of Our Saviour, in Christianshavn, Copenhagen. Finished in 1696, but the spire is from 1752.

Work your way up that outside staircase and it’s a fantastic view of the city!

The story goes that the architect of the spire jumped to his death off the top as the spire went the wrong way … all false news as he died in his bed and anyway surely he would have bounced on the stairs below …

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What an interesting tower. Or is that the spire, the spiral stairs? It looks unusual. Really nice.

 

[fotoi]

Gol Stave Church at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum), Oslo.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Gol Stave Church at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum), Oslo.

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You really took beautiful shots during your trip, John.

 

[fotoi]

You really took beautiful shots during your trip, John.

Thank you, it's a beautiful country.

 

[inphoto]

Abandoned monastery near Athens