Nominate your 3 favourite Religious Buildings.

These can be churches, cathedrals, mosques, temples, monasteries or places of worship.

Please use this thread for nominating only. If you wish to discuss or post large numbers of pictures, please use the "DISCUSS:" thread.


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General rules:
The Hall of Fame forum is where we decide about our all-time favourites from the world of skyscrapers, skylines, buildings and cities. Every week users can nominate and vote in a specific category.

The five nominations that get the most mentions will be up for the final vote the week after. The one receiving the most votes will go into the Hall of Fame.

Nominating
If you name more then three, only the first three will count. If you name the same structure or city three times, that will be counted as one. Do not use this thread for discussions.

Promoting your favorite
Discuss this week's topic in the 'DISCUSS:' thread.

Ah, finally i've been looking forward to this.
1. San Pietro, Vatican(the most beautiful building i've ever seen)

http://www.costruzioni.net/images/piazza%20San%20Pietro%20022.jpg
http://roma.katolsk.no/img/pietrovaticano_castel.jpg


2. Kruisverheffing,Raalte (in my birthtown).
http://www.tandarts.org/images/RKkerk.jpg
http://www.keilholtz.nl/basiliek/basiliek/images/p5080210.jpg

3. St. Basils ,Moscow
http://www.moscow-taxi.com/images/churches/st.basils-cathedral-7.jpg
http://www.friedmanarchives.com/Latvia/images/1%20-%20Moscow%20Kremlin%20Building%20300%20dpi.jpg

St.Peters Cathedral, Vatican
St. Basils ,Moscow
Florence Duomo , Florence

1. Hagia Sofia, Istanbul
2. Notre Dame, Paris
3. Ulm Münster, Munster

We can't choose Sagrada Familia because it's u/c, right?

We can't choose Sagrada Familia because it's u/c, right?
Well, technically speaking, only completed buildings are allowed to be chosen, so no.

Taj Mahal (Agra, India)


http://img233.exs.cx/img233/4830/t19ej.jpg






St Paul's Cathedral (London)


http://www.thefilebin.com/userfiles/dublin2004/dec26/DSCN4512.jpg






Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury, England)


http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/1%20a2%20north%20west.jpg

1. San Pietro (Vatican city)
2. San Marco (Venice)
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~kraut/RKraut.site.files/gallery/venice-san-marco-nite.jpg
3. Taj Mahal
4. San Basils (Moscow)

1.Kölner Dom,Cologne/Köln

http://www.deutsche-heimat.de/koeln/tools/dom1.jpg

2.Ulmer Münster,Ulm

http://www.mamaku.de/bilder/MK-Fotos/Landschaften/Ulmer-Muenster-25.jpg

3.Hagia Sophia,Istanbul

http://www.jigboxx.com/jps/ed/ed03010.jpg

St. Basils ,Moscow
Ramsses Temple in Abu Simbel
C.H.I.J.M.E.S, singapore

St Peter's Cathedral, Vatican City
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
St Basil's, Moscow

wjfox, the Taj isn't religious, it was monument to the guys wife ;)

Cologne Dom:

http://tinypic.com/2nrvw3

http://tinypic.com/2nrvyf

http://tinypic.com/2nsgaa

St. Paul's in London

Notre Dome in Paris

San Pietro
St. Paul's
Notre Dame

Taj Mahal is a tomb......so do tombs qualify? :?

I nominate:

Temple Of Heaven, Beijing, China
http://210.75.208.159/eolympic/ztq/Download-photos/Temple%20of%20Heaven.jpg




Tian Tan Buddha, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
http://www.asia2002.gov.hk/press/pict/large/66.jpg




Angkor Wat, Cambodia
http://www.edwebproject.org/asiapics/angkorwat.blue.jpg

Cologne Dom, is insanely big. It looks like several other people beat me to it and also agree. Gothic architecture at its finest. I've seen it in person and you can't miss it.

2.St,basils, never been there but it looks cool.

3.Taj Mahal. Awesome.

St Paul's Cathedral is very beautiful without being too overdone :)

Taj Mahal's a mausoleum..doesn't count. If people are sighted praying there, that would be prayers for the dead.

As for me

1) Dome of the Rock, Jerussalem
2) Blue Mosque(Sultan Ahmet), Istanbul
3) Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Taj Mahal is a tomb......so do tombs qualify? :?

Yes, you can vote for it.

1. Notre Dame (Paris)
2. San Marco (Venezia)
3. Santa Maria del Fiore (Firenze duomo)

How about the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims?

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bmareuil-cyclo.levallois/33_Groupe_devant_cathedrale_Reims_3.jpg

http://ve2.ele.etsmtl.ca/~va2mek/reims/DSCN8932.jpg


Otherwise I'd go for St. Pietro, Blue Mosque and I really love the Church of the Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg.

1. ANKOR VAT
2. San Pietro
3. York, Raims, Köln, any gothic cathedral - I choose Canterbury:
http://www.christianliteratureandliving.com/aug2003/canterbury.jpg

and don't forget Sagrada Familia!

1)Ortakoy Mosque/Istanbul; best place for a religious building and perfect architecture
http://dunyaturk.com/tr17/efsun_ortakoygece11.jpg ortaköy
http://dunyaturk.com/tr21/cumhur_DSCN6363.jpg

2)Blue (Sultanahmet) Mosque/Istanbul
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/sultanahm.jpg

3)Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya)/Istanbul
http://www.istanbuldan.com/albums/tarihi_mekanlar/ayasofya/ayasofya01.JPG

i think Taj Mahal is not a religious building so its not in my list.

Damn hard, we've got tons of impressive gothic cathedrals. So many they are jamming each others (proof being people vote for Paris while it's a minor one, it's just the most famous).

Anyway, my first vote goes to Notre Dame de Reims.

http://www.notrefamille.com/photos-aeriennes/france/grand/606/g_60674.jpg


My second one to the Kaiserdom/ Aachener Dom

http://www.planet-venture.de/grafik/dom.jpg

My 3rd one to Lincoln Cathedral

http://members.aol.com/maddy28/chmyth/lincoln.jpg

Taj Mahal
Hagia Sophia
Notre Dame de Reims

1- Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)
http://img171.echo.cx/img171/8174/blue1ee.jpg

2-Hagia Sophia
http://www.jigboxx.com/jps/ed/ed03010.jpg

3-Ortaköy Mosque
http://www.math.umn.edu/~alayont/turkiye/marmara/ortakoy.jpg

1-Dom,Cologne
2-St. Peter's Basilica,Rome
3-Angkor Wat,Camboja

1. Angkor Wat

Claimed to be the largest religious structure in the world (after Temple of Karnak in Luxor?) Built in the first half of the 12th century (approx. 1130-50), overtaken by the jungle, and then rediscovered in the 1840s.

http://www.danciprari.com/images/worldtrip/cambodia/ca-siem-angkor-wat-inside-temple3-kristen-600.jpg http://www.ssdec.nsw.edu.au/Acesasia/cambodia/images/cb-flag.jpg
http://www.presse.fh-koeln.de/service/insider/insider5/bilder/b24-2.gif

Can't decide what to pick for second and third nominations.

Holy freakin crap, I'm changing my vote!! I wasn't too familiar with the beautiful cathedrals of the world so I went with the obvious choices..

My new vote:

1.Cologne Dom
2. Saint Peters Cathedral, Vatican

1. St. Peters Cathedral
2. Notre Dame, Paris
3. Frauenkirche, Munich

Golden Temple,Amritsar

http://tinypic.com/4ggdhu

copyright: Danny Cambré ,http://www.pbase.com/dannyc/india

Arunachaleswara Temple, Tiruvannamalai
http://www.templenet.com/Tamilnadu/images/madu_sky.jpg

Vishva Shanti Stupa,Rajgir India
http://tinypic.com/2837n8
http://tinypic.com/283s5g

1. Ely Cathedral, Ely
http://www.castlegraphics.com/graphic/backgrounds/backgrounds/ely_cathedral-800.jpg
2. Ulmer Münster,Ulm
3. Cologne Dom, Cologne

1. Angkor Wat, Cambodia - dedicated to the hindu god, Vishnu
2. That big black Mecca Box, Saudi Arabia

http://www.worldcityphotos.org/SaudiArabia/SAU-Mecca-webshotshajj20011.jpg

2. That big black Mecca Box, Saudi Arabia


Simon It's Mescid-i Haram(Ka'be) and it's primary mosque of the Islamic World.

MY FAVOURITE RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS
1-Ka'be Mecca-Saudi Arabia
2-Hacı Ömer Sabancı Mosque-Adana TR
3-Vatican Cathedral
4-Yivliminare-Antalya-TR

St.Peters Cathedral, Vatican
St. Basils ,Moscow
Florence Duomo , Florence


agreed

it is a shame the more grander buidling opposite the Vatican's Cathedral never came about! :(

1500's red tape :(

i dont want to start a war here but i would rather see the third temple in the place of the dome of the rock......architecturaly speaking that is.
http://www.jewschool.com/FF_144_holyland_a.jpg

What about this? Sagrada Familia in Barcelona:

IMAGE SOURCE:http://www3.baylor.edu/~Nathan_Atkinson/images/barcelona/Sagrada%20Familia%20air.jpg
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Nathan_Atkinson/images/barcelona/Sagrada%20Familia%20air.jpg

IMAGE SOURCE:http://www.tici.ch/Bilder%20Barcelona/Sagrada%20Familia.jpg
http://www.tici.ch/Bilder%20Barcelona/Sagrada%20Familia.jpg

well, i would say
hagia sophia
Blue mosque
Cologne Dom

Everyone seems to be choosing different buildings, most of them I've never even heard of before (apart from St.Peters Cathedral, St. Basils and a couple of others).

1) St Pauls Cathedral, London
2) Notre Dame, Paris
3) Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Many good choices so far, I would have to pick St.Peter's Basilica. But I would also have to give an honorable mention to the Bahai Temple in Wilmette, Illinois and the more modern one in Delhi, India. I tried to include pics, but I'm new to the forums and have yet to figure out the image posting technique. If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated. The FAQ hasn't helped much.

Hagia Sophia
St Peter's
Cologne

1. San Pietro
2. Chartes
3. Taj Mahal

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