Changing Mai, Thailand’s 2nd largest city is famous for its numerous Buddhist temples. Wat Muentomm’s vibrant colors and imaginative figures make it an excellent subject after dark.
Changing Mai, Thailand’s 2nd largest city is famous for its numerous Buddhist temples. Wat Muentomm’s vibrant colors and imaginative figures make it an excellent subject after dark.
Waiting area outside the entrance to the Augustinian monastery, Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome, Italy.
Waiting area outside the entrance to the Santi Quattro Coronati Monastery in Rome, Italy. Currently, 13 Augustinian sisters reside in the monastery adjoining the 12th-century Santi Quattro Coronati basilica. The order is cloistered and has little contact with the public. On the wall to the left of the sitting area there is a small grilled window for communications and an old rotating cylinder cupboard originally meant for dropping off abandoned babies. Beginning in the mid 1500’s, the sisters ran on orphanage at the site for over 300 years.
Ceiling of Eleonora of Toledo’s chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. It was decorated by Bronzino from 1540 to 1565. Eleonora was the wife of Cosimo I de Medici.
Temple Offerings For Sale, Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Located in the royal palace complex in capital of the former Kingdom of Kandy, the Buddhist Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic houses a relic of the tooth of the Buddha. Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and is a World Heritage Site. Flowers are a typical offering in temples in Sri Lanka.
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Religious Text on Altar, Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Denmark
Golden Bells, Tower of Hope, part of the former Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California
Christ Cathedral, once called the Crystal Cathedral and the site of televangelist Robert Schuller’s “Hour of Power,” is now part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange in Garden Grove, California. The Golden Bells are part of the exterior architectural elements of the Tower of Hope, a 13-story office complex on the grounds of the church. Designed in 1968 by architect Richard Neutra and his son Dion, the Tower of Hope was the tallest building in Orange County when it opened. The fiberglass golden bells, donated by Walt Disney and known as the “Disney Bells,” don’t ring
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