#Religious Buildings

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December 26th 1449 saw the first service held at Crichton Collegiate Church, south of Edinburgh.

The church lies a quarter-mile southwest of the Midlothian village of Crichton, and just to the north of Crichton Castle, the Crichton Parish Church was established as a Collegiate Church in 1449 by Sir William Crichton, laird of the nearby Crichton Castle and Chancellor of Scotland.

One of few remaining pre-Reformation collegiate churches which are still in use in Scotland, the Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Kentigern comprises a chancel and two transepts built in red sandstone; there was also probably a nave, but the only traces now are ragged stone work on either side of the entrance and traces of the roofline on the tower.

The vaulted interior was furnished during a major restoration completed in 1899, and it was then that the stained glass was installed.

Collegiate’ describes churches where priests and choirboys were recruited to pray daily for the souls of the great families who built and owned them.

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Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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Christmas Lights at the Mormon Temple 2023-5 by Amaury Laporte

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Antigua catedral de San Martín, Ypres

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Early morning in Pontevedra. Galicia. Spain.

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Southwell, Nottinghamshire

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En ce 1er avril, j’ai cherché, dans ma banque de photos, s’il y en avait que j’avais prises à pareille date les années précédentes… les seules que j’ai trouvées datent du 1er avril 2018.

Par curiosité, j’avais amené ma fille assister à une messe de Pâques; puisque je ne suis pas baptisée, je n’avais moi-même jamais assisté à une telle messe. J’en ai aussi profité pour visiter l’Oratoire avec ma fille. Par contre, je n’ai pris aucune photo intérieure… dommage.

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“Don't kill if you can wound, don't wound if you can subdue, don't subdue if you can pacify, and don't raise your hand at all until you've first extended it.” --Wonder Woman

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Sometimes I look at stuff and just get mesmerized over the intricate patterns and contrasts of designs. I'm a huge sucker for gold/black and this tower just looks so elegant with a sense of regality.

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we may not get forever / but forever is far

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The oldest Black church in California's East Bay burns in three-alarm fire | CNN

CNN  —  The oldest Black church in California’s East Bay was devastated by a massive fire Sunday night that the church’s pastor said gutted its interior structure. Video showed heavy smoke and flames shooting from the roof of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland, where the fire erupted shortly before midnight, according to a tweet from the Oakland Fire Department. It quickly…

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On 10th November 1150 work began on the construction of Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders.

Dryburgh was founded by Hugh de Morville for Premonstratensian canons from Alnwick Priory in Northumberland. De Morville was the Constable of Scotland and Lord of Lauderdale, but despite his Scottish titles he was a Norman lord, with his roots in England, so it is not too surprising that he invited English canons to populate his new abbey.

Construction of the new abbey concentrated on the abbey church, but even so, the church was not finished until the early 13th century.

Dryburgh became the mother house of the Premonstratensian order in Scotland, establishing daughter houses at Whithorn, in Dumfries-shire, and Fearn, in Ross-shire, among other locations. Dryburgh was never as prestigious or as wealthy as the three major Borders abbeys at Melrose, Kelso, and Jedburgh, but it lasted for 400 years in this peaceful spot by the Tweed.

The peaceful life of the canons at Dryburgh was disturbed in 1320 when a canon named Brother Marcus punched the abbot. For this serious offence he was expelled from the abbey. Much worse was to come just 2 years later in 1322 when the armies of Edward II, retreating from a reverse against the Scots, heard the abbey's bells ringing in the distance. According to legend, the army turned aside from the route of its march and sacked the abbey, setting fire to the monastic buildings and carrying off whatever loot they could grab.

The Scottish Reformation had a more long-lasting effect, however, and the numbers of monks dwindled until there were only 2 remaining in 1584. Eventually the last of the monks died or left, and the abbey was left to crumble into ruin.

Then the 11th Earl of Buchan stepped in. The Earl was a keen antiquarian, responsible for founding the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland in 1780. Buchan bought the Dryburgh site and turned it into a peaceful landscape garden, where flowers bloomed amid ancient ruins. When the Earl died in 1829 he was buried in the sacristy. His close friend, the novelist Sir Walter Scott, died just 3 years later and was buried in the north aisle.

Pics are a reconstruction by Andrew Spratt and pics I posted here taken on my visit to the Abbey in April 2013.

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Taichung, Taiwan

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Abandoned church, North Carolina

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Samantha Henworth @historiimagery

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