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Dude! Visited the Petäjävesi Old Church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s a wooden church from the 1700s that has not burned down. “All the others burned down, for one reason or another,” our guide informed us resignedly.
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MurkyMurk
@naught2shabby.bsky.social
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The lesson I'm taking from the docent is that this church disliked competition.
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@grybion.bsky.social
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Is that char on the front of the church, suggesting that fire came close to doing in this one too? Or is that just shadow in the image?
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Quietly Curious 🇺🇦🇨🇦 🏝️
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I saw a story on 60 Minutes on how russian troops have targeted Ukrainian churches and plundered artifacts. It’s beyond appalling. ☹️
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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Check out this funky chandelier, original to the church. It is so old that it came around to being cutting edge again.
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Simon Vandore
@simonvandore.bsky.social
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no smoking or fierce coughing
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Sander Vison
@sandervison.bsky.social
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Wow, pretty cool
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B J. Witkin
@itsjustbeej.bsky.social
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It looks like something out of Midsommar Except they burn theirs down every year
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Kinto (and Astor) 🔜 AC
@kinto-m.bsky.social
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"One reason or another" or "one Russian or another"?
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Jonathan
@jginsburg.bsky.social
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There are a number of stories behind that
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Nambi
@nambiarkv.bsky.social
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Glad they got what they did in Africa, Asia and to pagan Europe. More is in order.
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Kelby S.
@kelbystine.bsky.social
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If you ever need a stave church fix in the USA… www.hcscconline.org/stavechurch....
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
@sababausa.bsky.social
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Last summer my wife and I visited a beautiful 11th-to-12th-century stavechurch in Norway with some gorgeous inlays (the bell tower and some other features are later additions)
Would love to go back to explore Finland & the Baltics
www.stavechurch.com/urnes-stavki...
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DrGeophysics
@drgeophysics.bsky.social
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Still time for this variant to join the club. Keep us updated.
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✨🐸 figmentpudding 🐸✨ (Pam Poovey Aspirant)
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I am 99% certain a church modeled after that was used in a horror flick I watched not long ago 🤔 I think one of the later Paranormal Activity movies. It wasn’t great so I don’t really remember but the church was definitely like that.
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Emily
@cat-appreciator.bsky.social
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Did the Finns have the same problems Norway has had, with the satanic death metal people burning down historic churches?
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Kelly Barnhill
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Goddammit I love the Finns
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