Showing posts with label basilika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basilika. Show all posts

2009-08-09

basilika, church, nighttime illumination

Basilica by night

The Basilika Sankt Johann is another fine building from the Baroque architect Friedrich-Joachim Stengel. It was built in the period 1754-1758, as the Catholics in Sankt Johann were once again allowed a church, a hundred years after the Reformation. Here it is in its night time colours.

2009-06-11

basilika, hands

Hands and the thread of life

From the main portal of the Basilika St Johann. There are four hands in all -- missing from the photo are the hands of a baby and a middle-aged person. They were added to the portal in 1986 by the Saarbrücken born artist Ernst Alt.