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Saint-Tropez - Notre-Dame de l'Assomption

City: Saint-Tropez is a small harbour place on the French Riviera. More than 5 millions visitors come annually to this area, which is known as a meeting place of artists and people in high society. Saint-Tropez has approximately 6000 inhabitants.

Building: The current church of Notre-Dame of the Assumption was finished in 1784, after many years of work. The style of the church is Roman-Byzantic. It was not until 1820,however that the church was inaugurated. There were already several churches in the same area.


Object: God's name can be seen four times in the form of the Tetragrammaton.

Band of images 2: There are candlesticks at the foot of a painting, representing Christ blessing his disciples. At the base of the candlesticks God's name is placed inside a radiating triangle..

Band of images 3: The second time that God's name can be seen is at the main altar. It is placed on the door of the tabernacle. Some artistic licence has been used and the Hebrew characters are not entirely correct.

Band of images 4: Also at the main altar, at the base of another candlestick, God's name has been written, once again with artistic freedom.

Band of images 5: God's name be seen a fourth time in this church, this time on a beautifully decorated confessional box.

 

 

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1*: deze foto komt van Wikimedia Commens (© Krzysztof Bieganski) en valt onder de licenties GNU / FDL en Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0.

 

 

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