Antonio, my dear friend!
Are you back at active photography again, or is this from prior to COVID restrictions?
In any case, I am enormously grateful for your documentation of this important work. Religion has been such a major social tool of society.
Religion, (in it’s better aspects), serves to unite otherwise-diverse or mutually confrontational widely spread communities. It decreases the need for so many soldiers in governance of occupied colonial territories and to its credit, provides a spiritual cohesion of optimism, righteousness and self-worth amongs the faithful.
I believe we can do good deeds and love our neighbors without religion, but still religion is the dominant fountain of wisdom relied on even by modern Democratic, rationally educated societies.
Nevertheless, major iconic religious buildings and religious artwork and relics get neglected as patterns of worship evolve.
For example, as veteran religious orders get competition for more popular faith persuasions or from atheism, great wonders like the temples of the past in Cambodia and India or the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, or tge Acropolis in Athens mainly serve tourists. If the tourism brings money, then hopefully these treasures relics of our cultures will be preserved.
This is why, Antonio, I am so appreciative of your pictures and the great news that there’s a will to safeguard these ancient churches. It’s part of our universal heritage of humanity!
Kudos to you!
Asher