Inspired by Ottsworld‘s Good Friday post, I’ve put together a collage of my many religious encounters across the globe. Included below are churches, mosques, cemeteries, monuments, memorials and anything else that channels the bigger-than-us entities that so many worship. Whatever you choose to believe or disbelieve, there is beauty to be found here. So on this Easter Sunday, although I am not Christian, I celebrate the good that I believe religion can offer. For example, the four course feast my Italian-Catholic family will devour later today. Or the strength my family found when struck by two overwhelming, sudden losses last October. Or the safety I found in old cathedrals when I was lost and alone abroad. Yes, there is beauty to be found here. Do you see it too?
Nichol Caddingham
April 8, 2012
Reblogged this on Modern Gentleman and commented:
Happy Easter! celebrate spring with a hearty meal and these beautiful photos of places of worship from around the world.
curiousitykitty
April 8, 2012
Ecclesiastical architecture tends to be pretty awe-inspiring, but the helix staircases (top right, and one of the central photos at the bottom) are really stunning. Beauty indeed.