The Divided Church of Gmünd
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2023
Near the town of Gmünd in the Austrian state of Carinthia stands the Divided Church (Geteilte Kirche am Kreuzbichl), so called because it is...
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The Churches of Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2022
In an article in Vice , Brian Merchant argues that the first structure that humans will probably build on Moon after they have completed bui...
The Madaba Mosaic Map
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2021
In 1884, an Orthodox Christian community that had recently moved to Madaba, a city in western Jordan, began the construction of a new Church...
Istanbul’s Cast Iron Church
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2021
Although it looks like stone, the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church with its richly ornamented façade on the shores of the Golden Horn in Istanbu...
William Walker: The Man Who Saved Winchester Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2021
More than a century ago, Winchester Cathedral, which is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe and the longest of all Gothic cathedrals, wa...
Medieval Russians Built Churches in One Day to Ward Off Epidemics
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2020
In the middle ages, many Russian communities, especially in the Novgorod and Pskov regions, believed in building churches as response to cal...
The Fake Dome of The Church of St. Ignatius
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2020
One of Rome’s lesser-known attractions, the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola ( Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Italian), lies just ...
The Lost Villages of The Port of Antwerp
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2020
In the middle of the Port of Antwerp, in Belgium, surrounded by an endless sea of shipping containers, stands an old church tower on a small...
Forgotten Jobs: Dog Whipper And Sluggard Waker
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2020
Photo: Nelson Antoine/Shutterstock.com In 16th-century England, stray dogs disrupting church service became such a big problem that many...
The Hanging Cages of St. Lambert's Church in Münster
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2020
If you crane your neck and look up while standing in front of St Lambert's Church in Münster, Germany, you can make out three iron cages...
The Moscow Cathedral That Was Once a Swimming Pool
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2019
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour near Moskva river, Moscow. Photo credit: Valeri Potapova/Shutterstock.com On the northern bank of the ...
Churches of Peace: The Churches That Defied The Holy Roman Emperor
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2019
In the towns of Jawor and Świdnica, in the Silesia neighborhood of Wroclaw, Poland, stand two magnificent timber-framed churches. The Holy ...
Ethiopia’s Church Forests
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2019
Ethiopia is almost completely depleted of its forest cover. In the early 1900s, nearly forty-five percent of the country was covered by fore...
The Catholic Church Built by a Muslim Emperor
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2019
The city of Agra on the banks of Yamuna is a historical city full of monuments from the Mughal period, of which the Taj Mahal is one of the ...
San Petronio Basilica: The Church That Ticked The Pope Off
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2018
Dominating the central square in the city of Bologna is one of the world’s largest church with a unique mismatched façade that has been intr...
Foucault Pendulum And The Pantheon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2018
In the old Latin quarter in Paris, stands a magnificent 18th century building—the temple to all the gods, the Pantheon. Originally construct...
The Churches of Chiloé Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Off the coast of Chile, a group of about thirty islands belonging to the Chiloé Archipelago make up a fiercely independent community with it...
The Chapel Inside a Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
Santa Margarida is a freato-magmatic volcano located in the Spanish county of Garrotxa, in Catalonia. Some 11,500 years ago, the earth’s cru...
The Ruins of St. Paul's Church, Macau
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2018
The city of Macau in Southern China might be best known for its casinos and luxury hotels, but its most treasured icon is actually a church,...
The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem’s Church of The Holy Sepulchre
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2018
Underneath one of the arched windows of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, there is an old wooden ladder casual...
