Classic cathedrals or simple, more modern churches?
2007-11-21 05:06:13 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The most inspiring settings I have attended services in were out in the forest, among the trees.
I have attended services in cathedrals, and they are very moving, just the scope etc.
But God built the best ones.
2007-11-21 05:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Old, classic Cathedrals & Churches.
2007-11-21 05:15:51 · answer #2 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't have cathedrals where I live, but some beautiful 19th-century Catholic churches, which I think are very beautiful. It's only because that type of architecture was common centuries ago but it's only seen in Catholic churches today.
In San Francisco, a few decades ago, there was an incredibly beautiful old Jewish synagogue, on Geary St. In the 70s, the Jewish people moved out of it and it became Shabazz Temple, a Black Muslim mosque! Then it burned down. 8^<
Just a few blocks up the same street was a beautiful Catholic Church, St. Mary's Cathedral. It burned down in 1962, and they replaced it with -this-.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/b7/350px-DSCN2561.JPG
From the outside it looks like the agitator in a washing machine, so we call it 'The Maytag Building'.
2007-11-21 05:15:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Church of Nature! Take a walk in the woods or a garden and revel in the beauty of Mother Earth!
Cathedrals are beautiful too.
2007-11-21 05:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by MotherB 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definately the classic cathedrals. Modern churches are so plain.
2007-11-21 05:09:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Cathedrals, I am an atheist and an architect and when I go on vacation I almost always take a tour of a cathedral just out of the pure beauty of the building and its artwork.
2007-11-21 05:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I prefer a grove of trees as the perfect cathedral of the Divine (or as David said a Rock in Norway but I'm in Wisconsin) but between the two you gave, I really like the gilded and stained glass of the classic cathedrals. It's just something about them. The beauty of the art appeals to me (well, that and the hundreds of lives I've spent as a Catholic....)
Happy Eclectic Pagan Person.
2007-11-21 05:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by Mama Otter 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A Classic Cathedral that celebrates the Tridentine Latin Mass.
2007-11-21 05:08:23 · answer #8 · answered by hamburglar 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm rather fond of the cathedral architecture, but there's also simplistic beauty in little rustic churches.
2007-11-21 05:21:50 · answer #9 · answered by xx. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I went to DC on a school field trip and we went the the National Cathedral.
It was the most beautiful architectural piece I've ever seen.
Indescribable.
2007-11-21 05:08:36 · answer #10 · answered by Music. Is. Pride. 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Cathedrals of course.
edit to add-there is a church that just went up by my mom's house and it looks like a warehouse with faux-stained glass windows. I knows it's probably what they could afford but it is heinous.
2007-11-21 05:08:19 · answer #11 · answered by ImUURU? 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋