inSPIREd Sunday

Here's a detail from Christ Church Cathedral,
in Port Stanley, capital of the Falklands.

And those huge white things
outside the church are
the jawbones of a couple
of very large whales.
(BTW, now that they're
protected the whales are
starting to come back
in the Southern Ocean.)

[To see more churches
(with or without whalebones)
from around the world,
go here.]

Thursday Challenge—"old" (#2)

Last week I featured something that's
been around for 1, 937 years:
this old thing.  The Pantheon in Rome is
only 1,892 years old.  Still . . .
(This shot shows a detail of the back
of the building.)

[To see more of the Thursday Photo
Challenge, visit Dale's meme.] 

inSPIREd Sunday

A detail from the façade of the Cattedrale di
Santa Maria del Fiore (aka the Duomo),
in Florence.  The church was begun in 1296
and consecrated in 1436—it takes a
few years to create a masterpiece like this.

[To see more churches from around the world, go here.]

inSPIREd Sunday Shadows

A detail in the relatively new (early 20th century)
church of Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts.
This is very much a neighborhood church, located
off the beaten tourist path in the 12th arrondissement.

[Linking back to inSPIREd Sunday and Shadow Shot Sunday.]