@byjacklynn: Me 🤝 having an existential crisis everytime I enter an old building! This is St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, it’s stunning and completely free to enter! And it’s over 900 years old! I’m a huge fan of old churches, especially medieval or Italian renaissance churches. They have been the settings for so much joy and anguish, political alliances, intrigue and more! #historytok #scottishhistory #edinburgh #britishhistory #stgilescathedral #History #historytiktok
The air always feels so different when you step into an old church! I’m not religious, but they are hauntingly beautiful to me.
2025-03-09 20:04:33
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History by Jacklynn :
Please tell me I’m not the only one like this?!
2025-03-09 19:29:47
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zey 🍉 :
I always think of the laborers who built it with no labor rights, sick days off etc & how they’re forgotten
2025-03-11 13:30:56
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Edinburgh Theatremaker :
One of them was Jenny Geddes, who threw a stool at a minister in 1637 and started a riot! There's a statue in St G's commemorating the stool, because god forbid we have statues of women.
2025-03-09 22:03:02
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wronganswertryagain :
Europeans built the most amazing places ❤️
2025-05-04 19:02:31
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Jess does life :
Jacklynn, love your videos. From one romantic soul to another 💕
2025-03-10 10:25:21
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ElijahMidnight :
The movie and graphic novel “Home” are based on that concept of a single space occupied over time.
2025-03-10 13:36:30
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hurricanehannahlolz :
You are not the only one. I emotionally cannot handle historical sites for this reason lmao
2025-03-09 21:14:38
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Nik :
I have to say I LOVE your page! Seeing another Black woman with a love for the history I’ve spent 20 years of my life studying is so cool 😊😊
2025-03-09 19:33:14
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D🩷 :
if i ever go to England I'm going to look at old buildings and cry the whole time
2025-03-27 11:26:58
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kat :
Have you been to Skara Brae? I feel like you'd be so moved by it. All those homes, and then they just...left
2025-03-11 09:29:07
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kirsty :
me in graveyards
2025-03-09 23:06:59
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TLF :
Yes! Especially if there is a step that has been worn down over the years, or a piece of stone worn smooth from all the hands that have touched it.
2025-03-11 11:00:39
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alinamazing :
I like to remember that going to Mass on Sunday was probably the highlight of the week for most people because they got to listen to music and look at beautiful art.
2025-03-10 08:23:44
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Maria :
Your not the only one who thinks about this. I always wonder what they thought of a church when I’m in one. Like were they in awe like I was?
2025-03-09 22:25:44
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ptittilleul :
Think of all the prayers said there over all the years
2025-03-11 19:25:07
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Frigo :
I was in the Thistle Chapel at St. Giles a few weeks ago and it was amazing to think about the Royalty and other people who shaped the world that sat there.
2025-03-09 19:36:02
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Roo ✨ :
I went into John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester and was walking around imagining all the people who had been there before me and got a little teary eyed 😅
2025-03-11 22:30:30
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Cece :
I got chills when I went inside Notre Dame. It was so breathtaking!
2025-03-09 22:11:53
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Emma :
It’s a major reason why I’m still a Catholic, the weight of history and thousands of devout is beautiful 💙
2025-03-11 02:23:02
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Just being :
yeah like what did they pray for? were they in love? were they sad? were they scared for their children? were they scared about their finances? did one have a belly ache? LOL. what do they feel when singing voices echoed in the Halls? did they have a tingling up their spine? or did it make them feel emotions or sad?
2025-07-02 16:57:51
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Angie ODonnell248 :
Me too! Every old church. Grand or small. So many believers “separated by time” worshipping the same God 🙏
2025-03-10 22:02:25
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Daniela 🦢 :
Every time! What prayers were spoken…
2025-03-09 20:29:26
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Lewlew ✝︎ :
I always wonder what they used to pray for, was it similar things to us? There’s just so something so beautiful knowing that you aren’t alone going to a church idk
2025-03-11 10:20:07
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