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1 posted on 07/02/2013 5:26:20 AM PDT by varmintman
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They’re beautiful buildings. ‘Makes me want to tour Russia.


2 posted on 07/02/2013 5:34:15 AM PDT by Viennacon
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Try as they did, Lenin, Stalin, and all the rest could not stamp out the Russian Orthodox Church and the religious
spirit of a people (or of each individual person).


3 posted on 07/02/2013 5:44:02 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Meh..


4 posted on 07/02/2013 5:48:26 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Only losers like to win by losing.)
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Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.


6 posted on 07/02/2013 5:58:04 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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They are beautiful. But these are closer.
7 posted on 07/02/2013 6:08:05 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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The one with the green domes is the church of St. Sophia in Kiev, built for Prince Yaroslav by Byzantine craftsmen in 1099. It is very beautiful inside as well as out.

The Ukrainians have left some of the parging off of the exterior walls to reveal the ancient Byzantine brick which is different from what we use today.

8 posted on 07/02/2013 6:12:42 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Thank God (litterally) they weren’t all dynamited in the 30’s.


9 posted on 07/02/2013 6:36:27 AM PDT by DManA
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Thanks for posting. Beautiful churches.

Coming from Polish ancestry, what I find most beautiful about Russians and Eastern Europeans, is the old peasant faith. I would describe my father's faith in that way. He didn't learn it from a book, but it was in his heart.


11 posted on 07/02/2013 6:38:01 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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Amazing pictures....thank you.


13 posted on 07/02/2013 6:57:11 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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They sure are pretty.


14 posted on 07/02/2013 8:19:34 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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