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Wiki Loves Monuments

Wiki Loves Monuments announced their 2020 winners this month, with some understandable delay. Congratulation to the organizers and to all participants. Having a photo contest this size in pandemic conditions is itself a major achievement. There were an extraordinary number of winners this year from Middle Eastern and North African countries. So much the better! The encyclopedia needs photos from many countries. See commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 winners for more complete results.

First through third places

Two of the top three places – and an additional eight in the top 15 – featured sites in the Middle East and North Africa.

Saint John's Church, Sohrol, Iran by Farzin Izaddoust dar
Monastery of Rousanou, Meteora, Greece by Alexis Alexandris
Casbah of Algiers, Algeria by Abdelatif Nour

Four through fifteen

Vakil Bazaar, Shiraz, Iran by Soroush Javadian
Citadel of Qaitbay, Egypt by Summer Kamal Eldeen Mohamed Fara
Wilder's Folly, Nunhide, the United Kingdom by Mark Edwards
St George's Cathedral, Aleppo, Syria by Mohammad Abo Helal
Clouds over Makhtesh Ramon, Israel by Gilad Topaz
Dom Bosco Sanctuary, Brasiliza, Brazil by Francisco Willian Saldanha
Jameh Mosque, Hamadan, Iran by Hossein Rounasi
Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo, Egypt by Mohamed Wardany
Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra, Iraq by Omar Hussain Ali
Pietrapertosa in white, Potenza, Italy by Teodoro Corbo
The Mesopotamian Marshes, Iraq by Ahmed Abdulameer Lazim
Feng Tien Temple, Hsin Kang, Taiwan by Ching-Tzu Liu

A few of our favorites

Not all of our favorites placed in the top 15. In no special order these are:

Baron Empain Palace
Photographer: Hossam Manadily
نواعير مدينة حديثة - الأنبار
Photographer: عدنان السطاي
The Church of The Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Photographer: Amr Miqdadi
Chapelle de Santa Cruz.
Photographe : R hakka
Lori Fortress
Photographer : Vahag851
Underground Bath of Baku in Ichery Sheher.
Photographer: Sefer azeri

Holy Trinity Church of Gergeti
Photographer: Nata Mostova

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We all love monuments specially when they are produced in magnificent photos like here. werldwayd (talk) 20:50, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely gorgeous photography! Congrats to all participants, and especially the winners. Ganesha811 (talk) 21:42, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Astonishingly beautiful pictures. When I do vote in these things I find it an impossible task to pick the best ones when the standard is so high so congratulations to those who got "top anything" and thanks to all participants. Well worth looking at the Commons page with full results. — Bilorv (talk) 07:57, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

especially #1 in full resolution. DGG ( talk ) 06:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Great images, but the photo of the mosaics in the church in Jerusalem is misnamed. See File talk:Inside The Church of The Holy Sculpture.jpg. Kablammo (talk) 13:42, 30 March 2021 (UTC) Now corrected. Kablammo (talk) 21:34, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Stunning photographs!.--Vulp here 13:18, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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