Category:Niche chapels

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English: Niche chapels are sort of a hybrid between wayside shrines and niches. As niches, they are attacched to a building, but, as wayside shrines, its purpose is veneration rather than decoration. Usually contain paintings, statues (sometimes covered by a pane) or decorated tiles. Common in the Western Mediterranean.

See also categories: Wayside chapels, Wayside shrines and Chapel-shrines.

- For freestanding chapels, non attached to buildings.

See also category: Niches.

- For religious niches, yet decorative rather than venerative.

Subcategories

This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

B

Bildstock Christus in der Rast (Reutte) (2 F)

C

Chapel-shrines (5 C, 17 F)

N

Niche chapel at Dubík (empty)

Media in category "Niche chapels"

The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total.

Barzy-en-Thiérache (Aisne, Fr) chapelle-niche au Pas-de-Vache.jpg 2,736 × 3,648; 3.47 MB
Huldenberg school E.jpg 2,000 × 3,008; 1.31 MB
Paraguay Santa Rosa Campanario.jpg 480 × 640; 60 KB
Wydmy distr. Poznan old house.JPG 2,048 × 1,360; 719 KB

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