On Monday, Ludwig hosts his weekly challenge Monday Window. I looked in my archives and kept coming across window pairs. Here are a few of them, taken in Brazil, Mont St-Michel (France), Amsterdam, and Germany.
Monday Window: Windows in Pairs
Monday Window: Dohany St. Synagogue
The Dohany St. Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue, in Budapest, Hungary, is the largest synagogue in Europe and the 4th largest in the world. It can accommodate close to 3,000 worshippers.
The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style, incorporating decoration based on Islamic models from North Africa and la Alhambra in Granada, Spain. The Viennese architect reasoned that no distinctive Jewish style of architecture could be identified, so he used elements from the people most closely related to the Israelites, most particularly the Arabs.
The synagogue constituted the border of the Jewish Ghetto in Budapest during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and the complex includes the Jewish Museum, Heroes’ Temple, the graveyard and Holocaust Memorial.
The Dohany St. Synagogue is the center of the Reform Jewish denomination in Budapest. From there, you can take a walking tour of the Jewish Quarter, an interesting historic area in the Pest part of the city.
Posted for Ludwig’s Monday Window photo challenge.
Information obtained from Wikipedia.
Monday Windows: Germany
I haven’t been many places lately, for obvious reasons, so most of my photography the last several months has been of nature. So I dipped back into my archives of our trip to Europe last year to find some interesting specimens for Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge this week. Here are some windows in Wurzburg and Bamberg, Germany.
Monday Window: Windows With Grates
For Ludwig’s Monday Window Challenge, I am looking back at a cruise we took to the Panama Canal, stopping at several Central American Pacific ports on the way back. All these windows have grates. One of them, however, was taken in Jerusalem last year.
León, Nicaragua
Antigua, Guatemala
The purple sashes were there because it was Holy Week.
Actually, I think these windows have shutters, not grates.
Todos Santos, Mexico
Jerusalem, Israel
Monday Window: Historic Woodstock, IL
My husband and I had to get away from the quarantine for awhile, so in April we drove out of town and ended up in Woodstock, Illinois. It has a historic downtown, including an opera house! Here are some of its historic district’s windows, for Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge.
The opera house
Historic downtown
Shop windows
The old courthouse
Monday Window: Passau, Germany
These are random windows in Passau, Germany that I took last July, for Ludwig’s Monday Window photo challenge.
Monday Window: Dominus Flevit Church
(Visited January 13, 2019)
This little “teardrop” Catholic church outside the walls of Old Jerusalem is called Dominus Flevit, which means “The Lord Weeps,” representing Jesus weeping about the future destruction of Jerusalem.
Here is the same window from the inside, framing old Jerusalem with the Golden Dome as a recognizable landmark.
The church is flanked on four sides with pillars, atop which are jars in the shape of teardrops.
The interior is very simple. The altar is not much more than a table and a cross, but set in front of the beautiful window overlooking Jerusalem.
Here are a few details of the interior: the dome, one of the stations of the cross, along one of the side walls.
There is a small building outside the church…
…which houses a necropolis, containing graves of Jews from the 1st to 4th centuries C.E.
There is also this plaque on an exterior wall of the church.
Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge
Monday Window: Ocean Life at Brookfield Zoo
Taking the theme from Ludwig for his Monday Window photo challenge, here are some windows into marine life at Brookfield Zoo.
Jellyfish
Monday Window: Chagall
One of the “must-sees” at the Chicago Art Institute is the Chagall windows. They are located at the end of a long hallway, in the same room with replicas of other famous artists’ Chicago artwork (such as the Picasso sculpture whose original is in front of the Daley Center).
Posted for Ludwig Keck’s Monday Window challenge.
Monday Window: Historic Budapest
On July 8, 2019, we visited Budapest, Hungary.
Budapest is really two cities – Buda on the west side of the Danube and Pest on the east side. These photos were all taken in the historic district of Buda, during a walking tour.
Posted for Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge, 12/9/19.
