{"id":10091,"date":"2010-11-02T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/10091"},"modified":"2010-11-02T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:30:40","slug":"cathedral-metropolitana-de-brasilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/10091","title":{"rendered":"Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One sight in Bras\u00ed\u00adlia that I especially wanted to see was the Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia (Metropolitan Cathedral of Bras\u00ed\u00adlia) .\u00a0 Unfortunately,\u00a0the cathedral was under construction and I was only able to photograph the top of the cathedral .\u00a0 Also,\u00a0I was only able to visit at night when the cathedral was locked up, and so my photos are all night photos that don&#8217;t show all the details of this beautiful structure. The cathedral was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1970 .\u00a0It is dedicated to Our Lady of Aparecida, proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church as the Queen and Patroness of Brazil .\u00a0In front of the cathedral stand statues of the four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (S\u00ed\u00a3o Mateus, S\u00ed\u00a3o Marcos, S\u00ed\u00a3o Lucas, and S\u00ed\u00a3o Jo\u00ed\u00a3o).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Cathedral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10108\" title=\"Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Cathedral-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia (Bras\u00ed\u00adlia, Federal District, Brazil), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 October 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Cathedral-Bell-Tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10110\" title=\"The Cathedral Bell Tower\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Cathedral-Bell-Tower-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The Cathedral Bell Tower\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Cathedral Bell Tower<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: The Cathedral\u00c2\u00a0Bell Tower\u00c2\u00a0(Bras\u00ed\u00adlia, Federal District, Brazil), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 October 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sao-Marcos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10112\" title=\"S\u00ed\u00a3o Marcos (Saint Mark)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sao-Marcos-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"S\u00ed\u00a3o Marcos (Saint Mark)\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>S\u00ed\u00a3o Marcos (Saint Mark)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0S\u00ed\u00a3o Marcos (Saint Mark)\u00c2\u00a0(Bras\u00ed\u00adlia, Federal District, Brazil), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 October 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sao-Lucas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10113\" title=\"S\u00ed\u00a3o Lucas (Saint Luke)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sao-Lucas-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"S\u00ed\u00a3o Lucas (Saint Luke)\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>S\u00ed\u00a3o\u00c2\u00a0Lucas (Saint Luke)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0S\u00ed\u00a3o\u00c2\u00a0Lucas (Saint Luke)\u00c2\u00a0(Bras\u00ed\u00adlia, Federal District, Brazil), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 October 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sao-Joao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10115\" title=\"S\u00ed\u00a3o Jo\u00ed\u00a3o (Saint John)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sao-Joao-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"S\u00ed\u00a3o Jo\u00ed\u00a3o (Saint John)\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>S\u00ed\u00a3o Jo\u00ed\u00a3o (Saint John)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0S\u00ed\u00a3o Jo\u00ed\u00a3o (Saint John)\u00c2\u00a0(Bras\u00ed\u00adlia, Federal District, Brazil), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 October 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sight in Bras\u00ed\u00adlia that I especially wanted to see was the Cathedral Metropolitana de Bras\u00ed\u00adlia (Metropolitan Cathedral of Bras\u00ed\u00adlia).  Unfortunately, the cathedral was under construction and I was only able to photograph the top of the cathedral.  Also, I was only able to visit at night when the cathedral was locked up, and so my photos are all night photos that don&#8217;t show all the details of this beautiful structure. The cathedral was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1970. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Aparecida, proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church as the Queen and Patroness of Brazil. In front of the cathedral stand statues of the four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (S\u00ed\u00a3o Mateus, S\u00ed\u00a3o Marcos, S\u00ed\u00a3o Lucas, and S\u00ed\u00a3o Jo\u00ed\u00a3o). <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/10091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-brasilia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2CL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}