I have been in a lot wonderful places of Worship, of almost every Faith imaginable. Towering Cathedrals, Spiraling Churches, down to Ancient Celtic caves. But the Church I am most enthralled with, is the one in the Photo.
It is called: "The Church in the rock." Why?
Because it is inside a giant rock hollowed out to hold several hundred people. And the roof is tons of coiled copper. It has a massive pipe organ in it too.
When you go in...there is just something calm and peaceful about just being inside it. Tranquil comes close, but is lacking the spiritual warmth of the place.
It could be a meadow, or glade from a mystical story - just misplaced in Time.
It is in Helsinki Finland. If you get there...go there!
Every time we ported in Helsinki, I made some time to go there and just sit inside. Maybe it is like an Earth Mage or Nature Goddess, built a little place for themselves to sit and just empty your mind...maybe your heart. Or...simply to recharge your soul.
Me ...being me, as much as I loved it, I had to think about how it got there. It was designed and built by two 26 year old Architects back in 1968. And then I made myself laugh.
I mean who thinks when they are looking at thousand ton rock:
"I bet we could hollow out that giant bolder...and turn it into a Church."
Well, it was the sixties, and if you are in your twenties, sitting on a giant boulder and high as a kite...I bet the conversation went like this:
"Hey man, I have an idea."
"Far out. Like what man?"
"Well, I bet we could hollow out this rock, make it a church, and you know, like see God and stuff."
"Oh man, that would be groovy. I can dig it."
"We could like put an organ in it and make the roof out of copper! You know, keeping it all things from Earth and Nature..and shit."
"Oh, Man, Far Out. "
"Like do we blow it up, or like get a bunch of chisels and shit?"
"No. I think we just hollow it out.
"Here, take another toke. I gotta think about this."

And they did it.