Worlds Greatest Mosques, Churches, temples, etc...

Nosferax · Nov 10, 2011

Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, Qc, Canada

Montreal, Oratoire St-Joseph, Home of the "Frere André", one of the newest catholic saint.

Same, but with lighting

KSigMason · Nov 11, 2011

These are some amazing structures!

Marlowe · Nov 11, 2011

UtopianChaz said: ↑

Gotta give it to religion. They have nice architecture
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I agree , beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Still standing after 5 to 6 thousand years of vandalism and finally in Christianity's name.

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And to the glory of Lord Dionysus (of the good grape- at Baalbek : (wink)

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OJLeb · Nov 11, 2011

This Masjid reminds me of Darth Vader lol:

This one is nice:

And a couple nice-looking Churches to finish it off:

And this one is just sick (There's something about buildings that light up lol):

Salam

Nosferax · Nov 11, 2011

The church in my small town (Beauharnois, Qc)

Same in winter

KSigMason · Nov 11, 2011

National Cathedral in DC:

waltky · Jun 17, 2013

Another Angkor Wat temple complex found...

Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth
Jun 17,`13 -- Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex.

The discovery was announced late Monday in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a previously undocumented formal urban planned landscape integrating the 1,200-year-old temples.

The airborne lasers produced a detailed map of a vast cityscape, including highways and previously undiscovered temples, hidden beneath dense vegetation atop Phnom Kulen mountain in Siem Reap province. It was the lost city of Mahendraparvata. "What we have now with this instrument is just `bang' - all of a sudden, an immediate picture of an entire city that people didn't know was there before, which is remarkable," University of Sydney archaeologist Damian Evans, the study's lead author, told Australia's The Age in a video interview from Cambodia. "So instead of this kind of very long gradual process, you have this kind of sudden eureka moment where you bring the data up on screen the first time and there it is - this ancient city very clearly in front of you."

Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex stands in Siem Reap province, some 230 kilometers (143 miles) northwest Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's Angkor Wat temples complex. The discovery was announced late Monday, June 17, 2013, in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The laser technology, known as lidar, works by firing laser pulses from an aircraft to the ground and measuring the distance to create a detailed, three-dimensional map of the area. It's a useful tool for archaeologists because the lasers can penetrate dense vegetation and cover swaths of ground far faster than they could be analyzed on foot. Lidar has been used to explore other archaeological sites, such as Stonehenge.

In April 2012, the Australian researchers loaded the equipment onto a helicopter, which spent days crisscrossing the dense forests from 800 meters above the ground. The team then confirmed the findings with an on-foot expedition through the jungle. "We had reasonable expectations, I guess, of what we would find using the lidar data, but what we've ended up with has just blown our minds," Evans told The Age. "It's just absolutely incredible what we can see." The researchers theorize the civilization at Mahendraparvata eventually collapsed because of deforestation and broken canals and reservoirs.

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