Tuesday, April 30, 2024

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: Z is for Zakynthos, Zakopane, Zanzibar and Zayatsky

Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places we visited there was, on our agendas, an Abbey, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, Convent, Monastery, Mosque, Pagoda, Synagogue, Temple or other place of worship. As we travel along the road I often take snaps of God's many houses we pass by. These buildings range from ordinary to ostentatious. 

For the Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Blogging Challenge my theme is Gods' Houses. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Gods' Houses from my digital albums.

I was fearful of the difficult Z post. When I looked at my keywords I discovered that I had visited several Z places and that I had photos of churches from some of them:  ZakynthosZakopane, Zanzibar and Zayatsky. So for a change my Z post was easy to compile. 

Our first stop is in Zakynthos in Greece. As we drove around the island we saw several churches. I only have vague memories of this island so am pleased that I will visit again this year.

This church was tucked in the corner of the main square.

We spent time at very old church

Art in the old church

We spotted this church on a hill

and saw two yellow churches on our drive


Yet another church snapped from the bus. 

On  a coach tour in Poland we visited the charming town of Zakopane. As well as taking a funicular ride up to a mountaintop we visited a couple of local churches and a cemetery.


The Chapel of The Saint Christ’s Heart in Jaszczurówka

Altar

A helpful guide in English

I didn't record the name of this next church

I suspect that it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary

Mary had a significant spot above the altar

We managed to squeeze the usual visits to a church, market and pther historical sites on our day in Zanzibar. 

Christ Church - The Anglican Cathedral in Zanzibar

Above the altar

Beautiful woodwork

We reached the uninhabited island of Zayatsky in a local vessel on a beautiful afternoon.. The island has a connection to the magnificent Solavetsky Monastery that we had visited that morning.

Approaching St Andrew's Church by boat


As the church was tiny we had to enter in small groups

The church was splendidly decorated. It was definitely worth the wait to enter

Monday, April 29, 2024

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: Y is for Yellow

  Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places there was, on our agendas, an Abbey, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, Convent, Monastery, Mosque, Pagoda, Synagogue, Temple or other place of worship. As we travel along the road I often take snaps of God's houses we pass by. These buildings range from ordinary to ostentatious. 

For the Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Blogging Challenge my theme is Gods' Houses. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Gods' Houses from my digital albums. 

The pointy end of this challenge with difficult  X, Y and Z provides an extra challenge for we bloggers. I have chosen Y is for Yellow as I seem to have plenty of images with splashes or more of Yellow. 

Yellow Hues in Temple - Lhasa, Tibet

Bush Church - Bookham, Australia

Bush Church - Warialda, Australia

Yellow Walls - Clerkenwell, England

Shades of Yellow - Tahiti, French Polynesia

Worker in Temple - Kuching, Malaysia

Greenish Yellow - American Samoa

St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church - Navesi, Fiji

Manila, Philippines

The German Church - Gothenburg, Sweden

Guide in Yellow, Sri Siva Subramaniya Temple - Fiji

You won't miss St Paul's - Juneau, Alaska

Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista - Lornano, MonteriggioniSiena, Italy

Flag on Church - Lesbos, Greece

Yellow Sunshade, Confucious Temple - Tianjin, China

Sri Siva Subramaniya Temple - Fiji

Yellow Church - Curacao

Yellow is popular in Curacao

Curacao Synagogue - Willemstad, Curacao

Yellow Walls provide a good background, Temple - Singapore 

Alta Vista Chapel - Aruba

Iglesia de Santo Domingo - Trujillo, Peru

Masjid Umm Ul Qura (Formerly Laisterdyke Trinity Church)
Bradford, England

Saturday, April 27, 2024

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2024: X is for eXteriors

Looking back through my travel photos I see that in many places we visited there was, on our agendas, an Abbey, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, Convent, Monastery, Mosque, Pagoda, Synagogue, Temple or other place of worship. As we travel along the road I often take snaps of God's houses we pass by. These buildings range from ordinary to ostentatious. 

For the Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Blogging Challenge my theme is Gods' Houses. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Gods' Houses from my digital albums. 

As we look at these Exteriors we see that Gods' Houses come in all shapes and sizes and from modest to magnificent. Images of mosques will be missing from this post as I have already exhausted my supply of those images in my M is for Mosques and Minarets post. 

Night time at St Stephen's Basilica - in Budapest, Hungary

Old Kilchoman Parish Church - Abandoned in the Isle of Islay, Scotland

Christian Church, Da Nang, Vietnam

LDS in Toronto, NSW, Australia

Cathedral of Lucca -  Lucca, Italy

Hólskirkja Church - Bolungarvik, Iceland

Modern Church near Cijin Beach - Kaohshuing, Taiwan

Curtea Veche - Bucharest, Romania

Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens - Amiens, France

Phuoc Kien Assembly Hall - Hoi An, Vietnam

Seventh Day Adventist Church - Samana, Dominican Republic

Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center - Miami, Florida, USA

Basilica of Notre Dame of Fourvière - Lyons, France

St Patricks Church - Waroona, Western Australia

Jade Buddha Temple - Shanghai, China

Berlin Cathedral - Berlin, Germany

Moravian Church - Gomersal, England

Basilica of the Holy Trinity - Fatima, Portugal

Church of the Conception - Agaete, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Black People - Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

Somewhere in Ecuador

Wat Chalong - Phuket, Thailand

Betania Baptist Church - Honningsvag, Norway

Open Day at LDS Temple - Provo, Utah, USA

Metropolitan Cathedral - Liverpool, England

 Local church in charming village - San Pantaleo, Sardinia, Italy

Hallgrímskirkja - Reykavik, Iceland

The Spanish Synagogue - Prague, Czechia

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