Whenever I visit Torun, I mainly concentrate on St. Mary’s church…
It is hypnotic.
I do not treat it as a church from today’s perspective. I am amazed by its strong medieval message. We truly are dominated by the grandeur of the interior, and forced to look up. Today by looking UP – we mean looking at the splendid vaulted ceilings. But for a medieval man, it was looking farther, beyond. The ceiling of the church was Heaven itself, the site of God. In the middle ages with the very strong religiousness, it was an extremely important ideological message…
The construction of Torun’s St. Mary’s church started in … 1343. The same year as St. Mary’s Church in Gdansk, and was completed at the end of the century.
HERE is a short video of the church and here ANOTHER one… And ANOTHER…
To feel the atmosphere and to inhale the ages of history – you must come to Torun 🙂
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