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  "path": "/places/st-norbert-roman-catholic-church-rosenheim",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-18T20:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.atlasobscura.com",
  "tags": [
    "gothic",
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  "textContent": "A gothic style Catholic church in the middle of the Canadian prairies! That's not an everyday view at all. With red brick, stained glass, and a towering steeple, this church would be more at home in Europe, but here it is, in the middle of farmland.\n\nBuilt first as a more permanent replacement to an overcrowded wooden church in 1922, it was designed with distinctive Gothic characteristics; nave, side aisles, transept, apse, stained glass windows, rose window, dome, lantern and spire.\n\nWhile all these parts are Gothic, it has many interesting elements all together, such as a dome is done in the more typical German Baroque style, Doric columns, and a Maltese cross stained glass window.",
  "title": "St. Norbert Roman Catholic Church  in Altario, Alberta"
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