St. Peter's also displays some of the most technically striking mosaic reproductions of paintings ever executed the much admired altar pictures after originals by 16th- and 17th-century masters.
In the home of any Cuban family, very middle-class and very white, you will see, for instance, on an altar, a picture of the Santa Barbara [a Roman Catholic saint].
At the church's main altar, a picture of the pope talking with the church's former pastor, the Rev. John P. Wodarski, was set on a chair, next to a formal photograph of the pope.
Firstly, the video shows a sparsely decorated room with an altar and pictures of Hispanic people on the wall.
But I was distracted by another scene: A couple of other tourists were tramping across the altar, snapping pictures of the mosaic and the round marble spot on the floor that marks the whipping post's former location, seemingly unaware of where their feet were standing.
Special accent is placed on the portals and the paths leading to them, on the position of the tables of offering, altars, sacred pictures, and relics.
One altar (a reproduction) pictures an entire dynasty of kings, created for Copán's last ruler.
He had altars featuring his picture put up in the streets, and a hymn praising him was sung along with the national anthem.
García Márquez described Escobar as a monstrous Pied Piper: "At the height of his splendor, people put up altars with his picture and lit candles to him in the slums of Medellín.
I looked at Amma's picture on the altar I'd made out of a beautiful antique pine chest.
Most of the one's from Tanzania I have taken off of social media, finally accepting that when you don't even know the other subjects' names, the shared stage of your Facebook profile picture becomes and altar to the commodification of poverty.
