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<h4>[CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.118] <br>’Templecourt-yard.’ </h4> Surrounded by small stone pagodas, a temple-guard is cleaning up a shrine for burning incense-sticks in the court-yard of the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple at Guangzhou (Canton). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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[CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.118]
’Templecourt-yard.’

Surrounded by small stone pagodas, a temple-guard is cleaning up a shrine for burning incense-sticks in the court-yard of the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple at Guangzhou (Canton). Photo Mick Palarczyk.

  • <h4>[CHINA.GUANGDONG 25.118] <br>’Templecourt-yard.’ </h4> Surrounded by small stone pagodas, a temple-guard is cleaning up a shrine for burning incense-sticks in the court-yard of the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple at Guangzhou (Canton). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.MARAMURES 23.697] <br>’Saved by an angel.’ </h4> The devil tries to claim a soul with a list of sins while an angel counters with a register of good deeds in this fresco (1782) by Alexandru Ponehalski inside the ‘Church on the Hill’ at Ieud. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.MARAMURES 23.717] <br>’Mary in tears.’ </h4> The 17th century artist who created the crucifixion scene at Berbesti has succeeded in giving Mary a moving mournful expression. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.125] <br>’Lively skulls.’ </h4> Some of the skulls in the ossuary of the 15th century Neamt Monastery have little paintings showing their owners in life. Others simply state their names and dates. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.088] <br>’Following mass in the garden.’ </h4> While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from the south entrance of Sucevita’s church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross in the monastic garden. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 23.944] <br>’Holy approval.’ </h4> An crowd of holy men and six-winged angels looks down approvingly on the mean work of a nun at the choir of Moldovita’s monastery church. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.109] <br>’Angelic order.’ </h4> Angels on the heavenly blue north wall of Sucevita monastic church fly in mathematical order. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ROMANIA.TRANSYLVA 24.187] <br>’Fortified church.’ </h4> The Saxon fortified church of Biertan, built in 1516, is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. It was the seat of the Lutheran bishops who administered the German settlers of Transylvania. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
  • <h4>[ANTILLES.stEUSTATIUS 25.581] <br>’Preacher.’ </h4> Carmen Suares-Mars is a preacher of the Bethel Methodist church in Oranjestad. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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