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This weeks theme is Metal. Since it's Easter my choice this time was a photo, scanned from a slide taken back in 1997, in Arica, Northern Chile. Why a Church? Read the photo-text.
Arica, church designed by Gustav Eiffel
Perhaps the most interesting place to visit in Arica is the San Marcos de Arica church. Founded around 1570, the original church was destroyed in 1888 by an earthquake and was replaced by this construction by the famous architect Gustav Eiffel. The more sturdy structure is comprised entirely of prefabricated wrought-iron plates. Only the doors are wooden.
With other words a Metal Church
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posted by TorAa at
3/21/2008 07:08:00 pm
32 Comments:
Very to the point and to the theme of today Tor. Once question though: Was Gustav Eiffel there himself?
cool catch for the theme!!! mine's up too!
Bet the choir gets a good 'clang' in that chuch when they sing!!
That's a great photo for this weeks theme.
A Pefect choice for "Metal" and Easter....! Eiffel certainly was a talented manb!
Pretty amazing to have the church built in mostly wrought-iron plates.
Happy Easter!
That's amazing! Beautiful, too!
Nice to see a creation of Gustav in Chile! what a creative man he was!
I start to believe that you are obsessed by churches, lol ! (and you didn't sleep very much !)
What a beautiful old church Tor....just amazing. Thanks.
Yours is a much more elegant piece of metal than mine! lol But wonderful and I'm impressed by the bit of history re Eiffel. Thanks! :D
Wrought iron panels? That must have been an interesting site during construction. Nice photo and very interesting historical information.
I've got my PhotoHunt entry up at http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/ in case you're interested. If you do visit, please leave a comment and feel free to explore the rest of my little blog.
Beautiful photo!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
pretty picture of a church..nice one..
my metal entry is here
http://pinay-wife.com/2008/03/metal.html
hope to see you there
Wow, Great choice for this week's theme. Have a great weekend
That's a really good choice for the theme, facinating too!
excellent entry, very nice church and history lesson, my original photo post had some old farming iron and other farmhouse items, I added a second entry because of something I saw while visiting other photo hunts, please stop by both, happy easter
What a beautiful church!
This is a great metal church Toraa. I did not even know it existed in Chile. Thanks for sharing :)
Hop in for some fun
http://crizcats.blogspot.com/2008/03/photo-hunters-metal.html
and/or have a look what my metal teeth cat did
http://crizlai.blogspot.com/2008/03/photo-hunters-metal.html
Have a nice weekend!
It's amazing that the reconstruction church is built mainly from wrought iron plates. An interesting choice for this week's theme!
Beautiful church! I like to take photos of places of worship too.
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Wrought iron plate church..Gustav sure love metals..hehe. Great picture ;)
Pearl - have a good weekend
A METAL church!! That is awesome :)
Happy Easter !
Never heard of a metal church. Great entry on the theme. Thanks for sharing it.
Happy Easter !
Häftig kyrka,du verkar berest!
Kul att du tittade in.
Det är många norrmen i Skaraborg!Kanske inte i min lilla stad men inte långt ifrån.(Huspriserna är högre här jämfört med Mariestad!)
Ha en fortsatt trevlig påsk!
(Är du inte i fjällen,det trodde jag alla norrmen var denna helg!)
Wow the Eiffel Tower guy? WHat a cool church and most definitely unique!
I've never heard of this church - wonderful! Thanks for the link as well. This is fascinating.
Amazing! I wonder what it's like inside - does it "feel" like metal? Beautiful anyway.
Happy Easter. :)
Vilken fin kyrka. Förstår att du reser mycket. Att resa är ju så berikande. Jag har aldrig varit i sydamerika utan mest rest i Europa.
Lite Afrika och Asien oxå. Vad trevilgt det är att få norska kommentarer. M mm jag gillar dig. :D
wow, that must be one heavy church!
That really sounds like a heavy structure, Tor! And beautiful!
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