Chinese rendition of jesus christ from tang dynasty era (600-900

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Another

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>>69891592
I want to know more about this too

shouldn't this thread be in >>>/his/ though?
it's been ages since i went to that board

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>>69891664
Fuck that, let it stay. /his/ killed the last good threads on /int/.

On a side note, I had no idea Nestorianism was doing that well in China.

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The Annunciation Church in Nazareth is a real feast for anyone who likes foreign renditions of Christian figures.

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>>69891812
Nestorianism, syriac and saint thomas spread surprisingly far. There are saint thomas christians in india who claim they can draw their practices all the way to the original thomas the apostle.

>>69891664
/int/ has much better discussion imo

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>>69891912
That's pretty damn impressive.

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>Kakure Kirishitan (Japanese: 隠れキリシタン, lit. '"hidden Christian"') is a modern term for a member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period that went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s

>Kakure Kirishitans are called the "hidden" Christians because they continued to practice Christianity in secret. They worshipped in secret rooms in private homes. The prayers were adapted to sound like Buddhist chant, yet retained many untranslated words from Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Bible and other parts of the liturgy were passed down orally, because printed works could be confiscated by authorities.

>Kakure Kirishitan was recognized by Bernard Petitjean, a Catholic priest, when Ōura Church was built in Nagasaki in 1865. Approximately 30,000 secret Christians, some of whom had adopted these new ways of practicing Christianity, came out of hiding when religious freedom was re-established in 1873 after the Meiji Restoration. The Kakure Kirishitan became known as Mukashi Kirishitan (昔キリシタン?), or "ancient" Christians, and emerged not only from traditional Christian areas in Kyushu, but also from other rural areas of Japan. The majority of Kakure Kirishitan rejoined the Catholic Church after renouncing unorthodox, syncretic practices.

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Interior of the church of Saint George, monolithic church of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church that became the official state religion of aksum and later ethiopia in early 300 CE

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Exterior

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Another interior shot