Christ Our Hope Catholic Church in downtown Seattle. This is the waiting area in our parish office. The totem poles depict Seattle’s ties to a rich Catholic history. Totem pole on the left from top to bottom: 1) Raven creation 2) Wheat grapes 3) Bear holding baby Jesus - Native Star Child 4) Princess Angeline (Kikisoblu) 5) Orca whales with Spirit face in shared blow hole 6) Fr. Francis Xavier Prefontaine. Totem pole on the right from top to bottom: 1) Eagle Dove 2) Pope Francis 3) Wolf with feather 4) Mother Joseph 5) Two salmon with Swinomish dog figure in one eye 6) Chief Sealth. The totem poles were completed in 2016.
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Igreja de Santa Maria da Visitação | Church of Saint Mary of the Visitation (Melgaço, Portugal)
The main Church of Castro Laboreiro is dedicated to Our Lady of Visitation. The primitive romanesque church dates from the 9th century, being inserted and registered within the medieval period (12th century), and renovated in the 16th century. Inside, there is a white and golden alterpieces at the center of the altar, the same with the lateral pulpit. It's mainly built in a pre-Romanesque style, but also has Gothic, Joanine Baroque and Neoclassical styles. And it even suffers from Galician influence, as is common among the portuguese border territories.
I) Façade of the Main Church.
II) Entry of the church with a view to the main altar.
III) View of the high choir on a wooden balcony, and also the wooden door with a Madonna and Child engraved.
IV) 16th century Baptismal font in granite, decorated with a high frieze of interlinked fleurs-de-lis.
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Date idea:
You, me. We go to the Catholic Church in the town. You listen to me talk about the architecture of the church. I tell you what gothic cathedrals it is quoting from. Then, on the ride home we talk about the evolution of St. Peter’s basilica.
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Church of S. Giovanni Battista in Racconigi (Italy)
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Charola do Convento de Cristo em Tomar, Portugal | Round Church from the Convent of Christ of Tomar, Portugal
Initially located within the walled area of the Castle of Tomar, the construction of the church charola (meaning, ambulatory), dates back to the origin of the castle (c. 1160) and is closely linked to the beginnings of the kingdom of Portugal and to the Order of the Knights Templar (later the Order of Christ), having been interiorly reconfigured in the 16th century. It served as the private oratory of the Knights Templar and later would become the main chapel of the church built during the reign of King Manuel I. Thus, its typology was similar to the byzantine churches which integrated the Romanesque with the Crusades movement, and it also incorporates a later Manueline decoration and an important set of 16th-century paintings and sculptures.
Part II
i) View of the charola from the nave decorated with late-Gothic sculptures and mural painting, depicting the four evangelists (Left: St. Luke with the calf/ox and St. John with the eagle. Right: St. Mark with Lion, St. Matthew with the angel), and the Cross of the Order of Christ on top.
ii) Inside the charola ceiling with three monumental canopies in gothic style in gilded polychrome wood.
iii) Ambulatory with the Pieta del altar of Our Lady topped with a monumental canopy in the flamboyant gothic style.
iv) Mural paintings of St. Mark, the Evangelist (above the baroque-style pulpit), another unidentified saint (possibly St. Peter or Paul), and the Cross of Order of Christ, on the lateral wall of the "charola" entry.
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St. Matthew the Evangelist Catholic Church, Olsztyn, Poland by Kamil Piotrowski
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