Best of Rob:
June 15 - The royal chapel (1689 - 1710) in the palace of Versailles, near Paris
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Tombstone of Nicolas Del Halle and Jeanne Couty Herdenvelt (1550), in the church of St. Etienne (1550 - 1888), Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - In l'Eglise de la Chapelle (aka the 'Kapellekerk', Catholic, present structure 13th cent.), Brussels
Best of Rob:
June 15 - A Latvian re-enacter at 'La Chapelle Royale', aka the Church of St. Joseph (Catholic, 1689 or 90), Waterloo, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Replicas of spurs hanging where the originals hung from 1302 (and the famous 'Battle of the Golden spurs') to 1382, in the Church of our lady (founded 1199, Catholic), Kortrijk (Courtrai)
Best of Rob:
June 15 - In the Church of Our Lady (Catholic, founded in 1199), Kortrijk (Courtrai), Flanders, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - The miraculous discovery of St. Firmin's very well preserved remains, in polychrome (1490-1530) (everyone looks sad b/c he's dead, although long dead), in the Amiens cathedral
Best of Rob:
June 15 - One very high ceiling for the 13th cent., in Amiens cathedral (Catholic, 1220-1406)
Best of Rob:
June 15 - In the incredible nave of the Amiens cathedral (13th cent.), tallest in France
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Part of the West facade between the Christ and Virgin portals (1220-40) of the cathedral in Amiens, with statues of Old Testament prophets
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens (Catholic, 1220-1406), the tallest cathedral in France & a Unesco site, Amiens
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Dome in the Royal chapel, 'l'Église du Dôme' (finished in 1708, Catholic), over Napoleon's tomb today, Hotel des Invalides complex, Paris
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Just a hinge, but quite a hinge (13th-14th cent.), on the door of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Best of Rob:
Aug 14 - 'Justice', possibly pre-Raphaelite stained glass from the famous studio of William Morris in London, in Christ Church Cathedral (1859, Anglican), Montreal
Best of Rob:
Aug 14 - Pre-Raphaelite (?) window (detail), possibly from the famous London studio Morris & co. (1895), Christ church cathedral (Anglican, 1859), Montreal
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Minaret of Hamoudi mosque (1906), Djibouti city
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Mosque in Zeila
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Sleeping in a mosque in Zeila, Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Ancient mosque in Zeila
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - What might be part of a rare double mihrab (1 points to Mecca, 1 to Jerusalem, a basis to speculate that this was one of the world's oldest mosques), possibly the Masjid al-Qiblatayn (7th cent.) altho I now think that that mosque stood next to it
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - What was left of either the Masjid al-Qiblatayn (Arabic for 'Mosque of the 2 Qiblahs', 7th cent.) in Jan. 2014 (there's much less there today) thought to be one of the world's oldest mosques, or of a mosque next to it, Zeila, Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Interior of the shrine of Ibrahim Zeilici with his tomb (13th cent.), Zeila
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Shrine of Ibrahim Zeilici (13th cent.) in Zeila, 'the city of light', Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - An Ottoman-era mosque in Berbera, Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - In the caves at Las Geel (9 - 3000 BC), Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - In a cave at Las Geel (9 - 3000 BC), Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Like they were painted yesterday, part of the ceiling in a cave at Las Geel (9 - 3,000 BC), Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Amazingly well-preserved neolithic cave art at Las Geel (9 - 3000 BC), Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - The shrine of Aw-Barkhadle, in an ancient sacred landscape, Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Minaret in Harar
