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12 March 2022

Praying with the Psalms in Lent:
12 March 2022 (Psalms 31, 32, 33)

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‘Praise the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings’ (Psalm 33: 2) … lyres in a shop front on a street in Rethym...

05 July 2020

The dome in Florence changed
city skylines from Rome and
Dublin to Berlin and Albania

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Brunelleschi’s duomo in Florence … how were the self-supporting Renaissance domes in Italy built without shoring or temporary timber centrin...

31 August 2019

Castle and bunkers are
reminders of sieges
of Corfu and Albania

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Lekuresi Castle, on a hill above Saranda, played a pivotal role in the siege of Corfu (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019) Patrick Come...

30 August 2019

A ‘three faiths’ encounter
with Albanian religion on
the streets of Saranda

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The Church of Saint Charalambos … a new, large Orthodox church in the centre of Saranda in southern Albania (Photograph: Patrick Comerford,...

29 August 2019

Albania’s first synagogue
was built by an early
Balkan-Jewish community

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Albania’s first synagogue, built in Onchesmos or Saranda in the fourth or fifth century (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019) Patrick Co...

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Praying with the Psalms in Lent: 12 March 2022 (Psalms 31, 32, 33)

The dome in Florence changed city skylines from Rome and Dublin to Berlin and Albania

Castle and bunkers are reminders of sieges of Corfu and Albania

A ‘three faiths’ encounter with Albanian religion on the streets of Saranda

Albania’s first synagogue was built by an early Balkan-Jewish community

Praying with the Psalms in Lent:
12 March 2022 (Psalms 31, 32, 33)

The dome in Florence changed
city skylines from Rome and
Dublin to Berlin and Albania

Castle and bunkers are
reminders of sieges
of Corfu and Albania

A ‘three faiths’ encounter
with Albanian religion on
the streets of Saranda

Albania’s first synagogue
was built by an early
Balkan-Jewish community