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  • Thumbnail for Wieskirche
    The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval Rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by brothers J. B. and Dominikus Zimmermann, the...
    5 KB (452 words) - 13:33, 9 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel
    The Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel (German: Wallfahrtskirche Maria Straßengel) is a fourteenth century Gothic church located on a hill overlooking...
    3 KB (230 words) - 11:38, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
    Pio da Pietrelcina), also called Shrine of Padre Pio or Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, is a Catholic shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia...
    4 KB (381 words) - 12:54, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church architecture
    Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, seminaries, etc. It has evolved over the two...
    79 KB (9,466 words) - 13:16, 20 August 2024
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    Maria, Königin des Friedens (category Pilgrimage churches in Germany)
    Queen of Peace) is a pilgrimage church and parish in Neviges, part of Velbert, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The pilgrimage dates back to 1676. Neviges...
    11 KB (1,100 words) - 08:57, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basilicas in the Catholic Church
    Some Catholic basilicas are Catholic pilgrimage sites, receiving tens of millions of visitors per year. Churches designated as papal basilicas, in particular...
    21 KB (1,980 words) - 09:47, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy
    Art and Architecture in Medieval France. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press. p. 35. Vernon, Eleanor (1963). "Romanesque Churches of the Pilgrimage Road". Gesta...
    18 KB (2,449 words) - 21:25, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church (building)
    Modern churches have a variety of architectural styles and layouts. Some buildings designed for other purposes have been converted to churches, while...
    32 KB (3,155 words) - 10:45, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk
    The Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk (Czech: Poutní kostel svatého Jana Nepomuckého) at Zelená hora (meaning "Green Hill", German: Grünberg)...
    12 KB (1,411 words) - 21:23, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christian pilgrimage
    descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers including Saint Jerome...
    36 KB (4,269 words) - 11:59, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pilgrimage
    A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. A pilgrim...
    48 KB (5,440 words) - 19:55, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Camino de Santiago
    lit. 'Pilgrimage of Compostela'; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading...
    55 KB (5,692 words) - 00:11, 13 June 2024
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    Tianluokeng tulou cluster Sanchi Stupa in India, a Buddhist pilgrimage site 4 concentric ring architecture of Chengqi lou Baptistery at the Piazza dei Miracoli...
    21 KB (2,339 words) - 18:50, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for French Romanesque architecture
    transepts with towers, and an apse with radiating chapels on the east. A pilgrimage church. Plan of Saint-Front de Périgueux, a cruciform with five cupolas,...
    49 KB (6,690 words) - 18:32, 6 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Simala Shrine
    commonly known as the Simala Shrine or the Simala Parish Church is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Sibonga, Cebu, Philippines...
    6 KB (312 words) - 15:04, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Catholic Marian church buildings
    of the Catholic Church, and today they can be found on every continent including Antarctica. The history of Marian church architecture tells the unfolding...
    30 KB (4,128 words) - 01:38, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Architecture of cathedrals and great churches
    that are found less often in parish churches. They also tend to display a higher level of contemporary architectural style and the work of accomplished...
    89 KB (10,896 words) - 20:25, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Czech Baroque architecture
    character of the Czech countryside (churches and chapels in Czech countryside are mostly Baroque). Czech Baroque architecture is considered to be a unique part...
    15 KB (1,768 words) - 02:33, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romanesque architecture
    of the churches that were founded on the pilgrim route. Pilgrimage and crusade The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, a major pilgrimage site from...
    132 KB (16,399 words) - 03:40, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for El Santuario de Chimayo
    El Santuario de Chimayo (category Catholic pilgrimage sites)
    the pilgrimage began in the 19th century, it was revived by survivors of the Bataan Death March after World War II. Many visitors to the church take...
    19 KB (1,779 words) - 14:48, 30 August 2024
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