The stained glass windows are majestic and colorful works, made thanks to the mix of small glass pieces, we can usually admire them in churches, mosques and other places of worship, historic buildings.
Let's discover these wonders around the world, where you can appreciate and be amazed by these glass mosaics.
We begin our journey with the Sainte Chapelle in Paris (France)
The Parisian church is famous for its impressive stained glass window which is done in purple and really leaves you speechless and breathtaking. There are 1.113 scenes represented that run through the old and the new testament. The Sainte Chapelle is a great masterpiece of Gothic art and was built in just 7 years. It is a place to visit.
Another place that hosts fantastic stained glass windows is located in Iran and is a structure that really leaves you astonished is the Nasir Al-Mulk Mosque, a unique mosque for its charm and for the magical effect that its stained glass windows offer.
It is commonly known as the pink or color mosque because it offers a wonderful spectacle for the infinite colors light up through the stained glass designs and colored tiles that make up its interior.
The Mosque was built in the late 1800s, the mosque today offers visitors the chance to experience what it might be like to enter inside a kaleidoscope.
Also in the east there is another unique place is the Erawan Museum in Bangkok, this structure is famous because it is surmounted by an imposing sculpture in the shape of a three-headed elephant, with stairs you can climb inside the elephant up to to reach the heads.
The museum occupies three floors and has collections of antiques, ancient religious artifacts and art collections.
The magic of glass can be admired at the foot of the elephant where there is a huge round stained glass window, a very rare work in Thailand. It is a stained glass window with a thousand colors, which gives magical reflections.
Source: swapseuropeans.info
