Just check out this full scale Lego church in the Netherlands. Its appearance would make it look like millions of plastic bricks would have gone into making it, but turns out there isn’t much Lego at work here. These colorful bricks are called Legioblocks, are made of concrete and are huge cinderblock variations of the plastic bricks.
For the past 50 years, Justo Martinez has been working to build a cathedral in a Madrid neighborhood. Using his own money, his own land and locally salvaged materials for construction, Justo has nearly completed work on the church. He did not have formal drawings or engineering plans for the construction, but the church is loosely based on St. Peter’s Cathedral.
It appears that a dinosaur had been present in a Church for centuries. Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano was built between 1532 and 1660, and the pinkish marble-like slabs supporting a balustrade in the Church appear to have contained a fossilized dinosaur. A 30cm horizontal section that shows “the cranium, the nasal cavities, and numerous teeth” has been found on the stone, while another section of the same skull was found in another stone nearby. Researchers aren’t sure what dinosaur this exactly is, but hope a three-dimensional reconstruction of the fossilized remains would yield results.
Via: DiscoveryNews
A couple in Kyloe, Northumberland, purchased an old church and converted it into their home. The holy-house still has the stained-glass windows that provide it with ample natural lighting. The house has five bedrooms and has been created out of a Georgian church. The church was purchased for £92,000 (about $143,615), and they spent another £300,000 ($465,000) on renovations.
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