Breathtaking Videos of 11 Beautiful Christian Sites Taken with Drones

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are becoming cheaper and easier to use all the time. Combined with cheap high-quality cameras, and we’re living in a new age of video recording.

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A drone plus an HD camera can enable a regular person take absolutely breathtaking video from angles never before possible (or at least that were very, very difficult to do before).

While YouTube is chalk-full of amazing videos shot with drones, here is just a sampling of videos shot with drones of beautiful Christian sites.

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For each video, I’ve included a picture, a few gifs, and then the video.

Enjoy!

1) Mont St. Michel, France

2) Solesmes Abbey, France

3) Dom Tower, of the old Cathedral of Saint Martin, Utrecht, Netherlands

4) Christ the Redeemer statue, Brazil

5) Cathedral of Notre Dame, Strasbourg, France

6) Canterbury Cathedral, United Kingdom

7) Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

8) St. Paul Cathedral, St. Paul, MN, USA

9) Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey, France

10) Sagrada Família, Spain

11) Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, France