13/365: Holy place

13/365: Holy place, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

January 13th

A picture of the Virgin Mary hanging on a tree in what used to be forest and is now city park. These rogue chapels are usually marks for places where something significant happened- perhaps a death, a deportation, a revolt, a war crime. Sometimes they are put up as thanks or apology. Sometimes they just mark old trees, hoping to save them from being cut down. There are many of them all over the country, but there are no plaques or official signs- by and by the original meanings are forgotten and the adorned trees become simple places of worship.

Here are some more tree chapels I've found over the last few years: