The Chapel of the Holy Well in Marianka, Slovakia, is a Baroque rotunda built in 1696 directly above a stream long held to heal pilgrims.
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Halesi-Maratika Caves: A Primordial Interior in Nepal
Halesi-Maratika Caves in Khotang, eastern Nepal, read through a Nordic architect’s eye: descent into living rock, light, and a place sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Kirat.
Chapel of St Non: Clifftop Ruin and Holy Well, St Davids
The Chapel of St Non, a clifftop ruin near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, marks St David’s birthplace and shelters a healing holy well where pilgrims still cast coins.
St Dominic’s Holy Well: A Spring Beneath Truro’s Streets
St Dominic’s Holy Well in Truro, Cornwall: a 17th-century spring reached by stone steps, tied to the lost Dominican friary founded in the 13th century.
Pushkar Lake: A Scandinavian Architect at the Sacred Ghats
A Nordic architect reads Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan — its 52 ghats, 500 temples, the Brahma lotus legend, and the ancient ritual of bathing into sacred water.
Gosaikunda: A Held Void in the Nepal High Country
Gosaikunda, a sacred alpine lake at 4,380 m in Nepal’s Langtang National Park, read through a Nordic architect’s eye: light, cold water, and pilgrimage.