Which religion has the best temples?
Catholicism
Can't beat cathedrals, but there are some nice mosques here and there.
>>438085
Hard to tell based on those that survived, because there are some magnificent ones that were destroyed. The Greeks had some great temples that were generally demolished or blown up; the Buddhas carved out of the mountains in Afghanistan and China were demolished by the Taliban and the Communists, respectively. The Chinese also inundated hundreds of ancient temples in the building of the three gorges dam. Chichen Itza and the mesoamerican temples we do see are probably only a portion of what was once built. None of the Jews' temples of jerusalem have survived; I'm sure Persepolis had some great temples before Alexander just burnt it down too.
>>438085
imo Buddhists, one of my favorites is the Ajanta Caves.
Orthodox
>>438085
Holy shit, I can't find a single non-overweight person in that picture.
Masonry
>>438121
Nah, too showy and garish and no elegance.
>>438128
Looks like the stage for a school play.
>>438128
lol
![Man_Curtea_de_Arges.SV[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cbux8DT.jpg "Man_Curtea_de_Arges.SV[1].jpg")
Orthodox Christians.
>>438128
without people in it it *almost* looks like a decorated kindergarten room.
if you fill it with masons however it will look exactly like it.
![Iglesia_Trei_Ierarhi_(acabada)[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lvkHaTf.jpg "Iglesia_Trei_Ierarhi_(acabada)[1].jpg")
>>438135
More orthodox churches.
>>438096
You can only put so many colors and patterns into a design before it starts to look gaudy.
![manastirea-curtea-de-arges-4[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AiD3dgg.jpg "manastirea-curtea-de-arges-4[1].jpg")
>>438135
Interior
Pentecostal Christians in Brazil
>>438143
So did they ever find proof of any Ana immured in there?
>>438153
what
>>438085
Has or had?
Norse temples were huge supposedly
>>438085
D A O I S M
>>438153
this is heretical on so many levels
>>438153
I think it's kinda funny when a Christian church looks like an ancient Greek temple with cross on it.
Shinto shrines are pretty cool too.
>>438128
This must be where the Illuminati that populate the highest secret levels of Masonry stick all the public face rejects who will never be allowed to learn about the portal to hell or secret alien contact or whatever they found.
>>438175
I wanted to ask you to elaborate but then I saw your trip
Christians, are you even trying?
>https://ravenectar.com/blog/inside-irans-breathtaking-nasir-al-mulk-mosque
Externally I find mormon temples often to be aesthetically pleasing.
>>438096
Oh man, why did these get made by such prudes? They would be the best places for doing acid.
>>438153
That's either a castle or a mall.
>>438253
Mormons are kind of wacky at times but you got to hand it to them for creating one of the only innovative yet actually aesthetically pleasing architectural styles in religious structures in the last, like, 300 years. About the only daring thing they've done too.
This temple is amazing on the inside.
>>438292
long temple is looooooooong
>>438318
Hey man, you'd be long too if you were a temple that has to shelter 1000+ statues.
>>438232
this one's gorgeous
>>438331
i actually kinda liked the minarets
Ásatrú
>>438373
Looks like shit except the roof lighting
>>438377
Looks comfy.
>>438103
That one's in China and it's still around.
>>438252
Islam
>which architectural style resonates most with your culturaly imbraided ideas of aesthetics?
>>438523
Wow, beautiful.
>>438534
Yes, because nothing says Orthodox like a shinto shrine.
>>438523
FUUUUUUUUUUCK
Get rid of the dumb fucking flower paintings on the pillars and it would look fucking perfect.
>>438085
Calling that abomination a temple is an affront to the very concept itself.
>>438534
I love mosque interiors and I'm a catholic though family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Church,_Helsinki
My favorite ones are still Catholic, though.
>>438313
You have a problem with space castles?
>>438782
>>438797
Cutest, coziest little church ever.
>>438799
>>438801
Thorncrown and Cooper Chapels are both the same architect
This one is also pretty cool.
>>438800
That's fucking cool. Where is it?
Pic related is my fav monastery, was actually born not 10 km from it. Gun dump pics.
>>438809
>>438810
>>438811
>>438812
Wow, excellent thread everyone. Delicious architecture!
>>438812
I like the coziness of it.
>>438820
creepy ass nigga
>>438821
Thread theme: https://youtu.be/yorZAbLBs9E
>>438085
>that pic
America in a nutshell
>>438153
this doesn't look like a church at all
>>438682
Oh fuck that's amazing.
>>438821
I've been to that place once. Orthodox churches are amazing.
>>438909
>tfw fhtagn
>>438121
Mosques tier
>>438254
iranian shia mystics consumed dmt in the form of a certain seed that grows on the iranian plateau. i cannot recall the name at the moment, but its a tradition that stems from zoroastrianism. the smoke from burning the seeds would be inhaled and divined.
>>438085
Jesus would need two whips for that monstrosity.
>>438581
Was this excavated or did they build it 30 feet into a pit?
>>438278
it seems straight out of some shitty Lord of the Rings Fanfiction
>>438422
what church is this?
looks early or even pre-romanesque
>>438452
to think this shit is all made of wood and put together only through fitting each woodpiece.
The Japanese were the goat carpenters. Just as westerners were the goat masons.
>>438820
I can't help but think how boring some of these places would be in person. Especially the cathedrals. It feels a lot unimpressive, and the size among other things really affect your perspective. I wish real life was like. No way would Norway have a depressive population.
It's amazing how devoted we humans are to doing both the most beautiful things, and the most heinous ones because of our faith.
Despite not believing, one can't help but think such work must be because of something, why would we go to such extents for nothing? There's got to be a bigger motive.
>>438085
central asians where pretty based when it came to temples
>>439790
anyone?
>>439793
you know you dig it!
>>438572
What are those two people doing to each other?
>>439903
>>438096
GOD TIER
>>438092
First post accuracy
The Western Wall is nice too, although technically not a temple.
>>438248
Fucking acid trip right in there
Too bad drugs and psychedelics are Haram
>>439946
The temple mount should be, but fucking snackbars chimp out every time someone goes up there cause "muh Muhammad's horse was hitched here, muh 3rd holiest site in Islam, fuck the Jews". Also ultra orthodox Jews don't like the idea of praying up there either because no one is ritually pure enough to sanctify it. So it remains in the hands of angry sand people.
>>440060
Doesn't like half the population of the southern arabian peninsula do Khat?
>>438153
I might be wrong, but...
...a-are they trying to bring to mind Solomon's temple?
>>440212
Yes, here's the inside
>>440060
>Too bad drugs and psychedelics are Haram
It isn't lel and most muslims ignore that anyway, drinking alcohol and the like.
I have never seen a muslim that doesn't drink.
>>438153
Shinto and Islamic religious spaces are far and away the best.
>>438085
shinto shrines are the definition of comfy. are their shrines build in the middle of forest?
>>438523
my grandma has the same flower motif on her kitchen wall
>>438085
The pagan. The pagan temples is nature herself.
>>440635
More like i haven't met a muslim guy that doesn't smoke weed/hash/
>>438085
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>>440630
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>>438142
It starts to look Gaudi.
>>439258
The Ethiopians were pretty hardcore about their Christian practices. That entire structure and surrounding walls are all carved out of the surrounding rock.
>>438096
>nice
>gaudy primary colors
OY VEY MUHAMMAD
>worshipping buildings instead of God
>>438244
Stop it, you're making me suspicious enough to go back to the masonic church.
>>438248
Looks like somebody vomited a bunch of skittles onto the walk way.
>>441963
>worshipping
>>442346
You're either with God or Satan.
Whether you know it or not is irrelevant.
>>442351
>this is what Christfags actually believe
You're making the fedoras seem fine people. Stop with this faggotry.
>>442374
>nothing created everything
This is what atheistfags actually believe
>>438981
I know, right, the atmosphere is special.
>>439843
The one in white is the bride, the kneeling one is fixing her clothes probably.
>>439790
>>439793
>>439798
Beautiful. Those details too.
>>439305
Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello
What religion would you call the air benders? Buddhism?
>>442457
Airbending, firebending and earthbending are all Buddhism.
>>442470
Howso?
>>442481
They each represent different types of Buddhism.
>airbenders are Buddhist Tibet
>Earthbenders can be classified as many CHinese Dynasties, probably Qing
>firebenders are probably Japan or Yuan Dynasty
Waterbenders are Inuits, so not Buddhists.
>>442497
I would have to disagree about the Earth Kingdom representing a variant of Buddhism. Buddhism is entirely centred around the spiritual will and power of one's self and their path to enlightenment etc. This involves a significant lack of any deity/higher figure worship or any other "force" more powerful than the adherent. But the Earth Kingdom lacks this because of the heavily emphasised impact and influence of the Monarchy and the King/Queen of the kingdom. Granted the entire spirituality isnt just based upon the monarchy, there are other spiritual influences across the continent, as is expected, but even still they dont uphold many Buddhist principles of selfness, they mostly are shrines to other things like Kyoshi or the badger moles etc.
>>439903
wut
>>442497
You could also make the relationship of Water Bending to Taoism with the Ying and Yang=Tui and La
>>442546
>ancestor worship
>monarchy
>bureaucracy
>huge-ass
>get rekt by neighboring island nation
It's China all right.
>>442555
>trips of truth
That's actually clever anon. I'll give you that, but they are Inuits nevertheless.
>>442560
Yeah you'd have to be an currymunching cunt to deny the fact that they are inuits
>>438254
>Prudesw
I doubt it. That design is very psychedelic. The architect, or mason... whoever, knew what was up.
>>439798
>dat lion on the perch
