Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland

[meathiel]

Comments

[kizzikat]

Thanks for these! Definitely on my list of places I'd like to visit.

[djonma]

A great place, but not really a place of worship, being as it is mostly, a tomb.

[djonma]

Heh wish I could edit replies... I'm not saying we shouldn't have places like this here. It's just not really a place of worship, nor ever was.

[kizzikat]

Isn't reverence for ancestors a form of worship though? We particularly remember the dead in November, All Saints and All Souls, Halloween, Remembrance Sunday - aren't these all ways of placating the power of the dead? Sorry, getting a bit theological there!

[if_venice_sinks]

i totally agree. and the tomb obviously has religious/spiritual meaning (such as how the sun lights up the interior on the winter solstice), so i would classify it as a sacred place/place of worship

[meathiel]

I wish I could witness that one day!

[haggispatrol]

Lovely piccies, thank you!

[meathiel]

Glad you like them!

[cata_clysmiic]

Ugh, so wonderful. <3

[meathiel]

It's a very spiritual place!