of the significance of the city in this sense. Once again, whatever your religious views you cannot help but have heard of the Three Kings, some of your children may even have played one of them at Christmas in the nativity!
Their arrival in Cologne provided the impetus required to design and construct a building worthy of their importance??
??and about as far removed from the humble stable in Galilee that they visited as it is possible to get!
BUILDING A 40,000 SEAT SHRINE TO GOD AND THE THREE KINGS
In this day and age with think little of the ever growing number of super-stadia, but how about the idea of building a 40,000 seater back in 1248?
Impressed? We should be!
Why 40,000 seats? Quite simply that was the total population of Cologne at the time.
A big Cathedral for a big city. If it looks big and impressive now, in a large ...
Advantages: Beautiful cathedral and friendly guides Disadvantages: None
On a recent short break to Ripon in North Yorkshire, and having a liking for cathedrals as I do, I took the time to visit Ripon Cathedral with my partner.
Located just five minutes walk from the market square area of Ripon town centre, the cathedral is very easy to reach. There is also a car park a couple of minutes walk from the cathedral.
Ripon Cathedral is unusual in that, in common with only one other Cathedral in the country, it also functions as a Parish Church.
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A LITTLE HISTORY
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The Cathedral building itself began in the 7th century when St Wilfrid built one of England's first stone churches on the site.
St Wilfrid was educated at Lindisfarne and then travelled to Rome in 652. On his return, he became abbot of a Benedictine monastery and built a church in Ripon. The crypt of the church is ...
JEFFJEN 14.12.2009 (19.12.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Ripon Cathedral
Advantages: Interesting place of worship Disadvantages: Gets busy
easy to reach even if you aren't on an organised excursion, it takes about 10 minutes to walk from town centre over the Tromsøbrua bridge, or you can catch a bus 26 in direction Hungeren, 27 and 28 in direction Sollien. There are organ concerts in July at 2pm which cost 60Krone and sometimes there are Midnight sun concerts which are more expensive.
There was plenty of parking for coaches and the lawns around the cathedral are well tended, and it was possible to walk around the building. It really is a parish church and not a cathedral as we understand the name to be.
Even with coach loads of people I found the church to have a wonderful feel, not dark and dreary but light and up-lifting and a place I would like to worship in. Well worth spending some time to visit if you are in Tromsø.
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