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Islam has been a growing presence in the Netherlands, and now 6% of the Dutch are Muslims. This is largely due to immigration from Turkey, ...

King Haraldr ordered this monument made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Þyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself...

In Islam, Eid ul-Fitr marks the end of the month-long observance of Ramadan. Ramadan marks the month in which Muhammad received the Qur...

Barbara Werth, aka McBricker, has created this lovely Orthodox chapel from the isle of Crete. Since many of my US readers might be less fa...

Just a quick note - I've added tags to the posts and a tag cloud and search function over on the sidebar to make it easier to navigate m...

Several years ago, Anne Schubert created a display for the school where she taught. The theme was holidays around the world to promote un...

In the years following the Protestant Reformation, conflict spread through Europe. Between 1618 and 1648, Germany was devastated by the Thi...

Yesterday I mentioned the Nauvoo Temple. I went looking online to find who built the larger model you can see the edge of in yesterday'...

BrickFair is an annual gathering of LEGO fans near Washington, DC, which happened a couple of weeks ago. In addition to making friends and ...

I found this Jewish history lesson posted on YouTube by Bangnvolvo.

Welcome once again to any new readers who may have found me via the New York Times article . Matteo Di Termini was born in the thirteenth c...

Wow, GodBricks got mentioned in the New York Times! This blog was linked in the article Turning to Tie-Ins, Lego Thinks Beyond the Brick . ...

Jovian presents a really nice version of Siddhartha Gautama under the bodhi tree .

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...