Sacred Spaces

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.