GodBricks

Blogging at the intersection between LEGO and religion

Friday, July 31, 2009

Angel of the North

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The Angel of the North stands 66 feet tall and has a wingspan of 178 feet. This sculpture was built by Antony Gormley in Gateshead, England...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Church

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There are tons of different church MOCs out there, some based on existing cathedrals and others simply from the builder's mind. This ch...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Notre Dame

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I've previously noted a LEGO model of Notre Dame. Here's the real thing. A fun tradition with some AFOLs is to put LEGO figures in...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Eclipse

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Today a solar eclipse will be seen across large parts of India and China. Eclipses have had a long history history in relgion. Cultures th...
Monday, July 20, 2009

From the Earth to the Moon

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I was trying to think of a way to tie in today's 40th anniversary of the moon landing, and I thought of the Apollo 8 mission. On Christ...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Kirtland Temple

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The Kirtland Temple (here recreated in LEGO by Arthur Gugick) was the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Thi...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Our Lady of the Snows

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The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows is an American Catholic retreat center near Saint Louis. Each year they have a huge Christmas...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Murder in the Cathedral

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Thomas Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170. He came into conflict with King Henry II of England over ...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Notre Dame

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The Bramigk brothers are experts at LEGO cathedrals. I've previously noted Jürgen's colossal Cologne Cathedral. His brother Ingo ...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Spirit war

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As long as I'm posting on Tiger, I also wanted to point out his Spirit War . I'm not sure if there is any specific religious conten...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Journey to the West

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After reading up on the monkey king for yesterday's post , I realized that I'd seen this before. Another builder, known as Tiger, h...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Monkey King

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The Chinese classic novel, Journey to the West (Xi You Ji), was written in the 1590's, based in part on legends of a Buddhist monk who t...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Sinful

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Portuguese builder Bacvs has started a project to illustrate the seven deadly sins . He's already built gluttony , vanity and envy . T...
Monday, July 6, 2009

JunduLlah

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As far as I can tell, the text underneath the figs in Ismah Mansurah's JunduLlah is from the Quran, Surah 61 verse 14: As said Jesus t...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Wat Phra Kaew

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The Wat Phra Kaew is the most important temple in Thailand, housing the Emerald Buddha. This 45 cm jade statue clothed in gold is said to h...
Monday, June 29, 2009

So Noah, he built him, he built him an arky arky

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Built it out of, LEGO brickies brickies, children of the Lord. Or at least that's what kids at Harvest Bible Chapel did recently. Last...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Habemus Benedict II

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Right around the same time as yesterday's creations, Michael Jasper created his Habemus Papam to note the new Pope Benedict.
Friday, June 26, 2009

Habemus Benedict

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In the Catholic Church, "sede vacante" (literally "vacant seat") is declared when a Pope passes away or resigns. Within...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Dresdner Frauenkirche

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The Frauenkirche was a Lutheran cathedral built in Dresden, Germany, in the early 1700's. It was almost completely destroyed during th...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Would you like one lump or two?

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I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, but it's fun. A couple of months back there was an April Fools contest on Eurobricks...
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