Seeing the Heavenly City: Europe's Overlooked Foundations

Photographer Kieran Dodds takes a journey from Jerusalem to London exploreing the idea of a heavenly city on Earth, manifested in buildings and cities across Europe and the Middle East.

Rome fell Augustine spoke of two cities in existence, the City of God and Man. Now we see fragments of that heavenly, pilgrim city on earth- New Jerusalem. This profound idea that is foundational to shaping Western thought and still visible in the remnants of human creativity scattered through space and time.A photographic journey to reveal glimpses of transcendent beauty from the Middle East through Europe culminating in an exhibition and small medieval-style guidebook for pilgrims as a catalog.

0:00 What connects these sites?

0:23 History as Mosaic

1:00 The Journey I undertook

1:15 Connecting the fragments

1:36 New Jerusalem origins

2:02 Politics and Augustine

2:46 Glimpses of Glory

3:09 NOW WE SEE book

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