Monastery of Saint Nicholas Anapausas
Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity
The Monastery of Saint Nicholas Anapausas is a compact rock-top monastery in the Meteora complex near Kalabaka, Thessaly.
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Varlaam Monastery
Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity
Varlaam Monastery is one of the six principal monasteries of Meteora, standing on a sandstone pillar above the Thessalian landscape near Kalabaka.
Monastery of Saint Stephen, Meteora
Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity
The Monastery of Saint Stephen is one of the six principal monasteries of Meteora and today functions as an Orthodox convent.
Roussanou Monastery
Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity
Roussanou Monastery is one of the six surviving visitor monasteries of Meteora, dramatically placed on a narrow sandstone pillar near Kalabaka in…
Great Meteoron Monastery
Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity
Great Meteoron is the largest and historically pre-eminent monastery of Meteora, the Orthodox monastic landscape rising above the Thessalian plain near Kalabaka.
Fulda Cathedral
Fulda, Hesse, Germany Christianity
Baroque cathedral whose crypt contains the tomb venerated as that of Saint Boniface, a central figure in the Christianization of German lands.
Ulm Minster
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Christianity
Monumental Protestant minster begun in 1377, famous for Germany’s tallest church tower.
Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth, Wiesbaden
Neroberg, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany Christianity
Landmark Russian Orthodox church built as the burial church of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mikhailovna and still used by an active congregation.
Castle Church, Wittenberg
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Christianity
Reformation landmark traditionally associated with Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and containing the graves of Luther and Melanchthon.
Herrnhut Moravian Church Settlement
Herrnhut, Görlitz, Saxony, Germany Christianity
Foundational settlement of the modern Moravian Church and German component of a transnational UNESCO World Heritage property.
Collegiate Church of St. Servatius, Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Christianity
Romanesque collegiate church above the tomb of King Henry I, central to the Ottonian history of Quedlinburg.
Berlin Cathedral
Museum Island, Berlin, Mitte, Germany Christianity
Major Protestant landmark on Museum Island, notable for its monumental dome and the Hohenzollern dynastic burial crypt.