What a beautiful Church in Iceland Bashny.Net

This huge building, giving birth to the Association is not then raised in the middle of a plain monolithic rock, not with a giant stalagmite, is not something with a fairytale tower rises in the sky in the center of Reykjavik – capital of Iceland. In fact, a spectacular structure with the unpronounceable name - symbolizes the eruption of a volcano and is a Lutheran Cathedral.


Marvellous temple is clearly visible from any point of the city – Hallgrímskirkja is a honorable 4th place among the high architectural structures of Iceland. From the observation platform at the top of almost 75-meter bell tower, can be seen as on the palm not only the whole of Reykjavik, but also a colorful mountain landscape of the surrounding townscape.


On the idea of the architect Gudjon Samuelson that he encountered in the late forties, the building symbolizes the eruption of a volcano rising from the crater lava ascends to heaven. The idea for the island, created by volcanic forces and is dependent, of course, relevant. The implementation of this project was carried out in several stages and was finally completed by the mid-seventies. The Church was consecrated in the eighty-sixth.


Does not leave indifferent the visitors of the temple organ music. Mechanical body created by the Bonn expert Johannes Klais specifically for Hallgrímskirkja Church. A fifteen metre and twenty-five-ton musical instrument has more than five thousand two hundred and fifty tubes, perhaps owing to such colossal parameters he is able to provide trainees no less than a huge impact.

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