Hi all 👋🏻

Today I want to share with you some captures of my views when we visited this Basilica. ROTUNDA - DOME OF MOSTA in Malta. This was during our 1 year of living there - and our #travels in MALTA 🇲🇹 To explore it… 😎

Today’s selection of #highlights will be of 14 #photographs 😎 that are taken with my #iPhone on 13 October 2019 in MOSTA ~ Malta 🇲🇹

Location of the basilica on Google maps, see the yellow star ⭐️:

More information about this basilica / church you can find in their website : Mosta church here!

It states:
”With a diameter of 37 metres, the Mosta Basilica’s dome is considered to be one of the biggest in Europe and ranks ninth among the largest unsupported domes in the world.”

”Outside diameter 56.2 metres. Inside diameter 39.6 metres. Internal height 54.7metres.”

The following information and much more can be found in Wikipedia here!

It states:
”It was built between 1833 and the 1860s to neoclassical designs of Giorgio Grognet de Vassé, on the site of an earlier Renaissance church which had been built in around 1614 to designs of Tommaso Dingli.”

As you can see a lot of history there. 🤓

Let’s have a look at what I saw now 😎

Another angle from the outside and it’s surrounding buildings.
The rotunda. Look at all the details we can see.
A corridor at the entrance of the Mosta church.
The first thing we notice stepping inside, is the dome. As we just have to look up. We can see the opening is closed with a wooden board today, so that the rain 🌧 doesn’t come through the roof. In the dryer months this is open. 🤓
Looking around we see different areas of the church and altars. Many empty seats…
It’s nice to be able to visit a #historical #landmark when not a lot of visitors and tourists are around.
Looking up a bit more closely now as we are in the middle of the dome now. Mesmerising…
We wander around and take all the details in. So much to see. 🤓
Beautiful sculptures and paintings.
This lamp catches my eye…
Another capture…
One more look up…
And we walk outside again.
We look back towards the rotunda:

It’s fascinating to imagine how old it is and to see the architectural features from this church.

Even though I am not religious, I do enjoy visiting churches and seeing their architecture and reading up on the history. 😎 How can I not.
Do you like visiting churches because of their history and architecture?

And that’s all for today’s post my friends, join me next time for more #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻 Even some #artworks once in a while will come by 🎨
Thank you so much for looking, and reading. And if you liked my post, an upvote or re-blog is always welcome 🙏🏻
Hope you enjoyed my photos and seeing the things through my eyes.
Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.

Have a great day all 😎
Grtz Jackie

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