hand of god, faithless #83, mexico, 2016 (church tower still stands after lava flowing around it up to 15m high for 8y. Locals believe it was the hand of god)
we shall overcome, faithless #6, romania, 2012 (the slag of a mine was pumped into this valley and forced the villagers to relocate)
spiritual messenger, faithless #49, indonesia, 2015 (the 'chicken church' built by an evangelist in the 90's but never finished due to lack of funds)
demons of the mind, faithless #32, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
transformation of the mind, faithless #75, italy, 2015
trust in gov, faithless #80, kazachstan, 2015 (this unfinisihed mosque is for sale as the contractor never got paid by the authorities that asked him to build it 18y ago. the officials have changed)
ora et labora, faithless #95, italy, 2019 (church of aband. village that was built by the fascists in the 30s)
wounded memories, faithless #62, northern cyprus, 2015 (only the church and foundations are left. The greek-orthodox villagers fled to the south after the turkish (muslim) invasion in 1974)
fantôme sacré, faithless #39, vietnam, 2014 (church of an abandoned hillstation built by the french. the locals avoid the cloud covered mountain - they think its haunted)
power of enlightment, faithless #14, burma, 2012 (flooded temple in burma's first hydroelectric project)
faithless #94, tunisia, 2019
mysterious ways, faithless #77, italy, 2015
faithless #35, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
frozen holy ghost, faithless #13, canada, 2012 (ex-trapper village and military airport, location of the coldest temperature recorded in north america of -63C)
chinese gift, faithless #50, japan, 2014 (fake temple in aband. chinese theme park partly sponsored by china)
faithless #92, croatia, 2017 (many cemetery chapels were never rebuilt after the balkan war even if the cemeteries are still in use)
faithless #89, usa, 2017
faithless #84, cuba, 2017
faithless #88, northern macedonia, 2017 (st nicholas church was built in 1850 and 100y later the Mavroro lake swallowed it)
dark carnival, faithless #68, italy, 2015 (poveglia, the quarantine island of venice since 1773. from 1922-68 asylum for mentally ill with "experiments" during the fashist days. est.100,000 died here)
faithless #87, usa, 2017
.日本 meets Россия, faithless #48, japan, 2014 (fake church in aband. russian village theme park)
faithless #93, germany, 2017 (chapel from 1906 at grabowsee, part of a hospital for tuberculosis outside berlin. later the nazis and red army used as mil. hospital until the 90s. since then abandoned and used as movie set)
faithless #15, burma, 2012 (flooded temple in burma's first hydroelectric project)
faithless #90, usa, 2017
faithless #52, japan, 2014 (fake church in aband. western village theme park)
faithless #55, palau, 2015 (chapel of the USA war cemetery on peleliu island where 1500 US soldiers were buried. In the 50s it was decided to move them back 'home')
khmer anticrist, faithless #1, cambodia, 2010 (built by the french as part of a bokor hill station)
faithless #73, italy, 2015 (unfinished church in a fenced area the size of 4 football fields outside bari - maybe planned as a refugee camp)
faithless #12, usa, 2012 (the far west outpost adak in the aleutians was in the 80s once home of 7000 soldiers and in need of a big church)
faithless #54, laos, 2015 (this temple was destroyed in the 'secret war' of the cia in the 60s. the temple was never rebuilt but the locals still worship the buddha)
faithless #85, usa, 2017
faithless #66, italy, 2015 (abandoned little church next to half abandoned village in linguria)
faithless #56, cyprus, 2015 (a dam-project forced the locals to abandon this church - today the water level is 10m lower due to draft)
faithless #43, philippines, 2014 (village was abandond after a volcano eruption)
wat-to-watt, faithless #16, thailand, 2013 (400y wat wang wiwekaram now flooded by the 720 megawatts srinakarin dam)
faithless #96, italy, 2019 (church of a village in sicily that was destroyed in an earthquake in 1968. the village was rebuilt 3km away)
faithless #66, italy, 2015 (in the 50s the dam forced the village to move up the hill - the tower of the church remained)
faithless #47, japan, 2014
faithless #40, vietnam, 2014 (built too close on the ocean it now helps the local fishermen to navigate)
gods of the jungle, faithless #5, india, 2012 (built by the britsh on ross island in the andaman sea it was destroyed by an earthquake in 1941. never rebuilt as the hq was moved to port blair)
faithless #11, usa, 2012 (old church of former military base in adak, aleutians)
faithless #41, vietnam, 2014 (destroyed in the vietnam war)
faithless #29, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
faithless #63, northern cyprus, 2015 (the greek-orthodox monks fled to the south after the turkish (muslim) invasion in 1974)
faithless #59, northern cyprus, 2015 (the greek-orthodox monks fled to the south after the turkish (muslim) invasion in 1974)
faithless #57, cyprus, 2015 (mosque in the southern part of cyprus - the muslims moved north after the division of the country in 1974)
faithless #45, saipan, 2014 (japanese shrine - after ww1 the japanese started growing sugarcane on saipan - until they lost saipan after ww2)
faithless #64, northern cyprus, 2015 (the greek-orthodox monks fled to the south after the turkish (muslim) invasion in 1974)
faithless #65, northern cyprus, 2015 (armenian monestary that was abandoned after the turkisch invasion in 1974)
faithless #37, burma, 2013
faithless #27, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
faithless #28, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
faithless #16, burma, 2012 (flooded temple in burma's first hydroelectric project)
greek tragedy, faithless #7, crimea, 2012 (greek orth. monastry that was forced to relocate in the 1940s)
faithless #25, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
faithless #60, northern cyprus, 2015 (the greek-orthodox monks fled to the south after the turkish (muslim) invasion in 1974)
faithless #10, uk, 2012
faithless #9, uk, 2012
faithless #30, russia, 2013 (the soviet union had elimination of religion as an ideological objective. the 1959 khrushchev campaign forced the closure of 12,000 churches)
faithless #42, indonesia, 2014 (the 'chicken church' built by an evangelist but never finished due to lack of funds)
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