10 NYC Churches Hiding Coffee Shops and Eateries Inside
New York City boasts many coffeehouse- and restaurant-church combinations, including hidden cafes, ex-nightclubs, and music venues in church basements.
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Photographer Captures Stunning Vertical Panoramas of Churches in NYC and Around the World
A photographer who got his start taking photos of NYC skyscrapers and church ceilings is now jet-setting around the world, capturing all he sees in vivid color.
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NYC’s Churches Through a New Lens: Vertical Panorama Photographs by Richard Silver
Photographer Richard Silver captures the complex architecture of New York City’s churches through his new vertical panoramic style.
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Daily What?! The Tallest Buddha in NYC sits in the Mahayana Temple of Chinatown
The Mahayana Buddhist temple in Chinatown has a 16 ft buddha, the largest buddha in New York City. Was formerly a pornographic film venue, the Rosemary Theater.
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Morbid Dublin: 5 Places to Get Surprisingly Close to Dublin’s Dead
With our guide of crypts, museums, remains, and literary homages to the dead and undead, you can get closer to the history of Dublin than you probably ever wanted.
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10 Secrets of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC
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The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue is not only one of the oldest buildings in Morningside Heights, but also one of the most fascinating. The historic cathedral has many secrets, from a gold triptych by Keith Haring to a very unusual sculpture featuring the …
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St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church in NYC and Its Remarkable Stained Glass Windows
St. Jean Baptiste Church happens to be one of New York City’s most beautiful churches, and one of two churches in NYC with stained glass windows from Chartres.
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Daily What?! The Statue That Survived Hiroshima Watches Over The New York Buddhist Church
A statue of Shinran Shonin, which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, was brought to the U.S. in 1955 and watches over a quiet section of New York City’s Upper West Side.
MorePostman’s Park: Commemorating Heroic Acts of Self-Sacrifice in London’s Financial Centre
Postman’s Park is best known for its loggia of tiled memorials to heroic self-sacrifice, proposed by George Frederick Watts.
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Ringing the Bells of Preservation for St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem
With the 2nd largest carillon in the World, St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem was described by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as “undoubtedly the handsomest example of the Romanesque Revival architectural style in all of Manhattan”.
MoreDivine Intervention: NYC Churches Converted to Secular Spaces
New York churches get converted into apartments, but also restaurants, nightclubs, and malls. We try to preserve their stories along with their exteriors.
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Washington National Cathedral awarded $100,000 by Partners in Preservation
Immense, powerful, sublime, tranquil… these are the words which propagate within each person as they step into the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C. The enormity of the space, along with the play of light within the expanse, leaves one in deep serenity for just a split second. In the next moment, the …
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