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Old Posted Mar 16, 2011, 10:57 PM
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Badass Churches

This thread is inspired by SkyscrapersOfNewYork's contribution to the tallest churches thread.

Use this thread to post images of churches that put the fear of God into all that lay eyes on them.

For ease of downloading, let's stick to one church per post. Here are a few for starters.


St Nicholas, Burnage, Geograph, S Parish, some rights reserved http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1584661
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Pilgrimage Church, Neviges
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Christchurch Spitalfields, MSH* Mark Barker, Flickr Some Rights Reserved http://www.flickr.com/photos/69108241@N00/3051490374/
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And the granddaddy of badass churches, Cologne Cathedral:


Thoschi, thoschi.net, some rights reserved, http://www.thoschi.net/gotham-city-p...ral-of-cologne
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omg i feel so honored, thank you for creating this thread Bedhead!


heres my contribution

Dresden Frauenkirche (Berlin, Germany)

http://www.pension-bauer-heinemann.d...er/dresden.jpg


Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (Liverpool, England)

http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwik..._Cathedral.jpg


Sagrada Família(Barcelona, Spain)

http://www.allfromweb.net/img/art/ba...-Barcelona.jpg


Las Lajas Sanctuary(Narino, Columbia)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_J2dmJAnEC4...Kg/s1600/1.jpg


Hallgrímskirkja( Reykjavík, Iceland)

http://fuckyeahprettyplaces.tumblr.c...bwibXy71qa11my

United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel(Colorado Springs, USA)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...det_Chapel.jpg
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Fantastic selection! That Columbian one is insane.
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This one may be "badass" according to a different definition...

Arlington Methodist, Arlington, VA:


Look closely. That's a gas station under it.
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St. Peters in Chicago. Located in the loop, it's situated between two skyscrapers. The rendering of Jesus on the front of the building always strikes me when I pass it. I can't walk to work without giving it a glance.


St. Peter's Church - Chicago by bachnin, on Flickr


St. Peter's Catholic Church, Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL by catholicsanctuaries, on Flickr
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Fantastic selection! That Columbian one is insane.
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Heh. Hearing "badass church" makes me think of 'Monsignor Martinez' on King of the Hill.

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^That is really strange looking. The ceiling looks animated.
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One of my favorite buildings

St. Basil's Cathedral says "Never mind stone or concrete colored churches, if you have any color paint it'll go somewhere."


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There's also the intimidating but probably false tale that Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who ordered the church, blinded the architect so he could never create something more beautiful.

Another, perhaps true, story is from the days when the Soviet Union was plowing huge avenues through old Moscow. City party boss Lazar Kaganovich was showing Stalin a model of the city, and took out the church to see how Red Square would look without it. Stalin immediately exclaimed, "Lazar, put it back!"

When Stalin wants to save a church, you know it's one badass church.

(I also associate it with this famous painting by Vasily Surikov, Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy, which is both a poignant image of Russia's often brutal history, and a vivid depiction of the severe consequences of crossing Peter the Great.)


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That Brasilia Cathedral looks like Space Mountain.
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It's no where near the biggest or baddest church in the world, but I've yet to personally visit a church as awe-inspiring as the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle in central Paris:


Claudia

Locally, I like the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak in Metro Detroit:


Patricia Drury

Also, not necessarily huge, but I have a thing for the gothic and romanesque catholic churches in around downtown Detroit...

Sweetest Heart of Mary


catholicsanctuaries

St. Josaphat


gsgeorge


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St. Joseph


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Ste-Anne de Detroit


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St. Mary


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St. Florian (Hamtramck)


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Detroit catholics really loved them some red-brick.
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church in São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina state... does anyone else agree that this church is kinda Art Deco??



http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...60&postcount=5

Fátima Church, in Fortaleza. The façade immitates two hands together praying




http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...0&postcount=19


São Francisco Ordem Terceira Church, in Salvador, Brazil

all covered in gold in the interior (like many baroque colonial churches in Brazil)

Flickr: sergiodantas

Flickr: papel_quimico




http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...2&postcount=11



"Hairy Church", Pelotas, southern Brazil


photos by Farrapo
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...5&postcount=73




for more, check out these two threads at SSC with a HUGE collection of photos of brazilian churches, temples, cathedrals
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=570697
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=888562
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Damn! I was gonna post Sagrada Familia!

I think the Hagia Sophia is pretty badass..





Not to mention the Pantheon (yes it is a church!):



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The National Cathedral in Washington, DC has a number of non-traditional gargoyles. The most famous: Darth Vader.


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