Very subtle. If you lived in a row house and a row house next door to you were converted into a church, would you be pissed?
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Churches
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Here they were singing the classic Hare Krishna – Hare Krishna –
Krishna Krishna…and man was it catchy. I think I had it stuck in my head for the next hour or so after I passed them. Dang, it’s stuck in my head again.
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Back in February I posted about this church for sale on the corner of Taylor and Illinois. Well I just got a flyer from the new congregation introducing themselves, which I thought was pretty cool. Welcome, St. Gabriel’s Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
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Now this would an appropriate use of dope sky as an adjective. I stumbled upon this church after wandering around the Crestwood neighborhood. This is a Russian Orthodox Cathedral located at 4001 17th Street, NW. It is pretty spectacular.
But a funny thing that happened to me as I was taking photos a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses approached me and asked if they could give me some literature. I said sure. Then they asked if this was where I went to church and I replied no, I go to the 9:30 club. One of the ladies looked at me quizzically and then pointed to the cover of the Awake! pamphlet she had handed me and said ok but ask yourself: Are we living in the last days? Man, that would suck walking around everyday thinking “we are living in the last days”. Shit, if we were living in the last days I’d head straight to the 9:30 club.
Well, sorry for that aside. Some more cool photos of the church after the jump including a pretty sweet door. (more…)
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What can I say? I like city churches.
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It’s not spectacular but it has a certain reserved dignity that I admire.
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How come you don’t bells tolling more often. Do you need a special permit for that?
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I once posted a photo of this church on 13th Street back in the day but that was when I was using the camera phone so I wanted to capture it in its proper glory. Seriously pretty sweet, yeah? And this is coming from a non believer. There’s just something very old world European about it to me.
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Ah, so this is there it is! Arguable the best name ever.
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Check out a close up of the incredible stained glass after the jump. (more…)