This moving photo was taken on 24 June 1944, one week into the three week battle to capture the island of Saipan. The caption provided by the Marine Corps Archives reads:Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Neb., a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/17/Tank-Altar/
On the nothern edge of Norway, far above the Arctic Circle, sits the Cathedral of the Northern Light. This new church building in the town of Alta features a 47-meter tall belfry clad in titanium sheeting that reflects t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/16/The-Cathedral-of-the-Northern-Light/You'll never again be able to drive past a church built in the 70s without seeing a chicken. This Facebook meme requires only googly eyes, a beak and a red comb. For some reason, they make me hungry.Link -via Lustik...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/10/Modern-Churches-That-Look-Like-Chickens/
This simple but beautiful structure is a quiet place on the grounds of a convent in Lucca, Italy. The design firm, Pietro Carlo Pellegrini Architetto, calls it the Wall of Memory:The wall of memory originated from the wi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/07/This-Is-a-Chapel/
In 1939, the Soviet government began damming the Volga River in Russia. The flooding that resulted left the entire Makaryevsky Monastery underwater except for the belfry. That and the artificial island later built around...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/19/The-Monastery-under-the-Lake/
Archaelogists announced today that they believe they have uncovered the site of King Richard III's grave, inside a long-lost friary buried beneath the Leicester City Council offices. The hunt for King Richard III's grave...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/05/King-Richard-IIIs-Grave-Possibly-Discovered-Under-a-Parking-Lot/
When rivers are rerouted or dammed, or when lakes or reservoirs are built, previously dry land becomes part of the waterway. Most buildings in such places are either torn down or are eventually destroyed by the water, bu...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/17/8-amazing-drowned-buildings/
For a more modular ecclesiology, visit this temporary structure in the Netherlands. It's built not out of LEGO bricks, but Legioblocks -- concrete blocks made to resemble LEGO bricks. Michiel de Wit and Filip Jonker...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/26/lego-church/
This beautiful image is the Church of Primus and St. Felician, which sits atop a mountain near Jamnik, Slovenia. The photographer responsible appears to be Jony2, a member of a Slovenian-language photography forum....
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/29/the-church-in-the-clouds/
A slab of marble in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, Italy, appears to contain a cross-section of the skull of a dinosaur: “The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull....
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/29/dinosaur-skull-found-in-church/
