Sunday Door

This church to which this door belongs is located on a small but very busy street where the trolley-bus' go by almost constantly. Actually, getting this picture meant standing in the middle of traffic (literally!) and waiting for an opening! This big, incredible door deserves better, but what can I do? A passing glimpse of it from the trolley-bus is perhaps better than nothing at all...but still. The door has a lovely, generous door handle, but I just can't imagine anyone actually using it given the fact that it is so hard to access which leads me to believe that it is a side entrance...I'll just have to go back and find the front entrance! Here, I've given you the chance to see what you would only see in passing were you to take, for example, tram 22 from Malostranske Namesti.

For more information about the church and a virtual tour from its tower, see here.

Sunday Door

On a quiet little street in a peaceful little courtyard stands this church. The gate into the courtyard was open, but the church wasn't. I walked into the garden and up to the door where I (as I almost always do) ran my hand over the surface of the door and scrutinised its details. I especially like to touch these big metal doors...it is as if they were also made for people who can't see or hear, the texture was put there for the blind to see what and angel looks like and for the deaf to hear the angels singing. Yes, surely there must be angels singing around a beautiful, quiet door like this...listen...maybe you hear them, too!

Is that a little cherub there on the door's handle?

Saturday/Sunday Door

Saturday/Sunday Door? What kind of door is that? Well, normally, on Saturday I show you a 'Sad' Door and on Sunday, I show you a church door...well, today, since I have a million things to do in our garden (while the weather is FANTASTIC), I'm doing a double post: a 'Sad Church Door' (yes, this was a side door).

Can you imagine the sadness this poor door feels for not being a door anymore? OK, so the door itself is no longer there, but it once was and the frame is still there...waiting. Just like the angels that are still watching over over it. Watching and waiting. And waiting...for someone to go through a door that isn't there.

Church Door Sunday

A side/back/additional/? door to another church.

Look closely at the writing above the door...in gold...in latin.

'In Charitate Atque Misericordia'

Roughly (very roughly!!) translated: 'Towards Love and Compassion'.

Lovely woodwork and the colour of the wood is wonderful. I like the very tiny handle...could only be used to pull the door as I don't believe it has any mechanism to it...more the size of a child's hand. And what is that hole for?

Church Door Sunday

Actually, this isn't a door to a church, but rather to a chapel that is in an old cemetery.

By the way, just so you know, that isn't graphitti on the door, it's just chalk and it marks that the 3 kings (K + M + B)* visited this door on the day of the 3 kings and it also marks the year (2010). I will explain this tradition better at another time...I promise!

Sunday Church Door

Once again, we are looking at a side entrances to a church (the main entrance to this church is much grander). I don't know how often this entrance is used, but apparently enough that they could not leave it as it was so they updated it with a new (old-looking) door in a bright red (!!). Personally, I am not impressed. It is all flash, but has no heart (unlike my very first door on 14 February which was also red like this, but had lots of heart)...this just looks out of place to me, but who am I to criticise it? Just a simple passer-by. Though when I see a bright red door on a church I have the impression that somewhere in the heavens there are angels sighing...or giggling. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?? Oh well, it certainly makes for good conversation!

Church Door Sunday- what once was

I found this on a dead-end little back street...the backside of a church (that I can't seem to find the name of!)...it was there, looking so sad, unloved and forlorn...it isn't really a door, but out of respect, we will pretend it is, since it once was.

Church Door Sunday

As is often the case with church entrances, this door is huge! This church entrance also has a small enclosed courtyard in front of it (some of it's wrough-iron work is framing this picture), which seems to make the door appear even bigger! When seen from up close, one can appreciate the beautiful and incredibly complicated metal work on the door. I think I could sit and just study the door for a few hours!!

Church Door Sunday

And here we are...back in front of another church! This particular door is not used to enter the church (and no, that is not graphitti on it - just chalk indicating that the 3 kings passed on the day of the 3 kings), but I like the looks of it and the view up to it so I'm sharing it with you! Enjoy!

Interesting handle!

Church Door Sunday

This is not the main entrance to this church (which is, in fact, part of The Clementinum - a former Jesuit college).Actually, it isn't to the church at all but to a sort of exhibit hall. (We have seen several exhibits here including Adolph Born - excellent!!). At first, I was taken in by it's size, the richness of the carvings that adorn the door and, of course, the frame. Actually, I have gone by this door several times and never noticed it because it is in a corner just behind and to the immediate left of another big door that you go through when you come from the street Krizovnicke namesti. (Note: from where I was standing to take the above picture, 105 degrees to my left and about 50 meters/yards away is the Old Town Square side of the Charles Bridge.)

But, back to our door here...if you look closer, you can see that the door was 'adapted' (probably rather recently) so that it no longer opens in the center (as typical double doors like this do), but only on the right side.

That, I can accept - with regret, that is if we don't mention those out-of-place diamond-shaped metal pieces imbedded in various areas of the door (see an example in the close-up photo above) especially where the doors hinges presumably are. What does bother ME about this door are the keyhole accessories (yes, I'm always zeroing in on these, aren't I?)...I find the style of these items extremely odd for this door. Am I wrong when I say that they have a very eastern (and a very not-in-the-style-of-this-door) feel to their design and material?