A few nice christian travel sites images I found:
It’s a Bloody Long Walk…
Image by spdl_n1
It doesn’t look it here, but it’s a long, steep climb up to Deir Mar Musa from the car park at the bottom of the hill.
Deir Mar Musa el-Habashi is a Christian monastery located in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to the north of Damascus. It was founded in the 6th century by St Moses (no, not *that* Moses) on the site of earlier Roman fortifications, before falling into disuse in the 1830s. An Italian priest, Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, visited the ruins in the 1980s, fell in love with them, and soon set to work to put them back into use.
Typically for Syrian Christians, the monastery takes great pains to build bridges with the local Islamic community. However, unusually for Syrian Christian institutions, Mar Musa is ecumenical (there are both Catholic and Orthodox inhabitants) and mixed (the monastery houses monks and nuns).
It’s a special, lovely place, and well worth a visit if you’ve a spare half-day in Damascus. I like how you can hardly see the monastery buildings in this shot – they just blend in with the rocks. Many visitors think there’s quite a Tibetan feel to Mar Musa – but having never been to Tibet, I wouldn’t know one way or the other…
The Path to St. Andrews (Explored #354)
Image by Roads Less Traveled Photography
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The Saint Andrew’s Church (Ukrainian: ????i?????? ??????; Russian: ??????????? ???????) is a major Baroque church located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The church was constructed in 1747–1754, to a design by the Imperial Russian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
The Saint Andrew’s Church overlooks the historic Podil neighborhood, situated on a steep hill to which the church gave its current name Andriyivska Hill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew’s_Church,_Kiev
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Home of the Stylite
Image by spdl_n1
After a recovery of sorts from her stomach bug, Emma and I decided to go out to the ruins of St Simeon, a church cum basilica cum fortress complex which sprung up around the column originally inhabited by St Simeon the Stylite.
Unfortunately, Emma took a turn for the worse en route to St Simeon’s, and didn’t explore the site – she was only capable of sitting under a pine tree whilst I went off to play.