HALL OF MYRIAD PATHS
Traditions present: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism
Five places written in Jamaica. Each carries its history, architecture, site and orientation, festivals, and the way to get there.
Each dot is one placeHover to see its name, click to open its page
All 5 pages now have an English version.
The Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Kingston, consecrated on February 8, 1911 to replace an older church destroyed by the 1907 earthquake, built in the Byzantine Revival style with a 26 m copper-clad dome and interior murals by Jesuit brother Francis Schroen.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
The oldest Anglican cathedral in the Commonwealth outside the British Isles, standing in Jamaica's historic capital of Spanish Town on the site of the 1534 Spanish Chapel of the Red Cross and rebuilt in red brick in 1714 after the Hurricane of 1712, famed for its 1817 octagonal spire, its role in the 1834 to 1838 Emancipation thanksgiving services, and its gallery of Neoclassical marble memorials sculpted by John Bacon the Elder.
Photo: Photo by Not home ( talk ); Not home at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
The sole active synagogue in Jamaica and one of only five surviving sand-floored synagogues in the world, located at 92 Duke Street in downtown Kingston and reconstructed in reinforced concrete in 1911 to 1912 by the Henriques Brothers after the 1907 Kingston Earthquake, preserving nearly five centuries of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jamaican Jewish heritage along with thirteen historic Torah scrolls.
Photo: ZeligJr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
The historic Anglican mother church of Jamaica's capital city standing at the corner of King Street and South Parade since 1699, founded for survivors of the 1692 Port Royal earthquake and rebuilt in earthquake-resistant reinforced concrete between 1908 and 1911 following the 1907 Kingston Earthquake, famed for its four-faced clock tower, the 1702 chancel tomb of English naval hero Admiral John Benbow, and marble sculptures by John Bacon the Elder.
Photo: Photo by Not home (talk); Not home at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Chứng nhân tâm linh kiên cường nằm ở mũi bán đảo cát Palisadoes thuộc Quần thể Di sản Thế giới UNESCO Port Royal, được xây dựng lại lần thứ tư vào năm 1725 tới 1726 sau khi ba ngôi nhà thờ tiền nhiệm lần lượt bị đại địa chấn năm 1692 nhấn chìm xuống biển, hỏa hoạn năm 1703 thiêu rụi và cuồng phong năm 1722 san phẳng, nổi tiếng với bộ đồ lễ bạc gắn với tên tuổi Sir Henry Morgan, gác đàn gỗ dái ngựa năm 1743 và ngôi mộ của Lewis Galdy (người bị động đất năm 1692 nuốt xuống đất rồi hất văng ra biển mà vẫn sống thêm 47 năm).
Photo: Richard Paton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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From Wikimedia Commons under open licences, each credited to its photographer, or photographed by UK MASTER ACADEMY. No image is published without both its author and its licence.
Four tests: it is officially listed as a heritage site, it belongs to a tradition this library covers, its site and orientation can be read in feng shui terms, and an openly licensed photograph exists.
The library opens one country at a time, beginning with the countries that have the most readers, and within each country with its most significant places. A grey country is simply one whose turn has not come. Suggestions are welcome through the page of Master Ưng Khiêm.
