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Posted: 19 Aug 2024

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Looking for the Holy Grail

Looking for the Holy Grail
The Crypt of the Rosslyn Chapel is said to lead to a further, larger Crypt containing the Holy Grail, the Treasure of the Knights Templar, and the mummified head of Our Lord.
No Photography Allowed, the sign indicated, but the silent, flashless, stealth iPhone is an excellent tool in these circumstances.
Once I looked at this hurried image…it revealed, in the shadows, a hidden door to a further chamber. I slipped through this, and was able to retrieve the Holy Grail. It now takes pride of place at the centre of my new IKEA dining table.

Nouchetdu38, Rachel J Bowler, Heidiho, dolores666 and 23 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Steve Bucknell
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Thanks, Laura. I get a sense that chapels, churches and cathedrals are taking on a new energy, more to do with a sense of community and aspiration than the revival of organised religion. I am drawn to their new life. Rosslyn Chapel, for example, revived by its association with the Da Vinci Code has become a thriving, really well organised, money-making machine. Each pilgrim has a chance to experience its rich history and symbolism. The new Visitor Centre is excellent: the coffee, the cake and the Gift Shop are bold and unapologetically part of the energy. The people who work there are full of enthusiasm. And there’s history, art and mystery as you walk into the Chapel. What’s not to love?

Incidentally, I completely agree with the No Photographs request: the sense of engagement, unmediated by the fumbling business of getting pictures, among the visitors was palpable.
7 months ago. Edited 7 months ago.
 raingirl
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I agree that a sense of community is a great thing - and why not use existing beautiful buildings to help keep that going?

And yes, we do need to sometimes put down our technology and just be.
6 months ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
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haha. Pride of place on the Ikea table. Love it.
Nice shot - and yes, after reading DaVinci Code I longed to see the Crypt of the Rosslyn Chapel.
Probably never get there - so thanks for your surreptitious shot. And I agree with Laura - I'm impressed by "your quick snapshot ability".
Also happy to hear about the new, very well-organized support. Good for them.
6 months ago.
 dolores666
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Will do for mixing the punch, innit?
6 months ago.
 Rachel J Bowler
Rachel J Bowler
Older English and European chapels and cathedrals seem to have been built to promote a sense of reflection and zen which gradually becomes absent from most more modern protestant reform churches.
4 months ago. Edited 4 months ago.

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