Favorite Churches

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Among small churches, Gangan-dera, the 'Temple of Clanging Bells'--Hakodate's Russian Orthodox Church.





Among huge cathedrals, I've always had a soft spot for Ely Cathedral and Massachusetts's very own Cathedral of the Holy Cross.







I'm aware that this doesn't really sum to me having any precise architectural 'tastes' in particular, and I worry that that's somewhat crass of me.

afleitch, St Bride's actually looks lovely to me. I used to hate brutalism, but I sort of developed Stockholm syndrome for it after four years on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. (More for interiors than for facades. I image-searched for the facade and don't care for it, but that interior is lovely.)

I see that SMilo has opened this thread to buildings of other religions as well, so I'll be stopping by again later on with some Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This Hachiman shrine in Asamushi-onsen, Aomori Prefecture is pretty cool. It's the only shrine I've ever seen or heard of with a torii made of ductile iron pipe, or any kind of metal actually.



The temple Bodai-ji, also in Aomori Prefecture, is also neat.



The pictures are mine; I took them when I was there two years ago.

Destroyed ones, preferably on fire if possible.

This thread is about architecture, not being 3edgy5me.