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Abandoned Church Transformed With Colorful Graffiti In Morocco
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Abandoned Church Transformed With Colorful Graffiti In Morocco

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Everything Okuda San Miguel touches turns to technicolor. You might remember him from the wild church-turned-skate-park we wrote about last year. Well, San Miguel is back, and this time he’s set his sights on a new building: an abandoned church in Youssoufia, Morocco, a project he’s titled “11 Mirages To The freedom.”

“One of the most amazing things about doing those churches was to feel that religions and spiritualism  are changing with the new generations,” San Miguel told Bored Panda. “It doesn’t matter where it is located or the culture living in the place. It is like the painting of the church brings together different religions. Art doesn’t care about borders. Muslim people came to take pictures of the Moroccan church, and pictures of me. This is love, freedom, peace and equality”

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“religions and spiritualism are changing with the new generations”

“It doesn’t matter where it is located or the culture living in the place”

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“It is like the painting of the church brings together different religions”

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“Art doesn’t care about borders”

“Muslim people came to take pictures of the Moroccan church, and pictures of me”

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“This is love, freedom, peace and equality”

Bored Panda would like to thank Okuda San Miguel for this interview

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RebeccaKun
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonder what happened to the people who used the church......bet they had to leave

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OthmaneBellamine
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This church was built by the french who colonized morocco, so when they finished looted morocco THEY HAD TO LEAVE

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E Maccabee
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet the gay people thrown off buildings in muslim countries feel real free, for about 5 seconds...;

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RebeccaKun
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonder what happened to the people who used the church......bet they had to leave

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OthmaneBellamine
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This church was built by the french who colonized morocco, so when they finished looted morocco THEY HAD TO LEAVE

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E Maccabee
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet the gay people thrown off buildings in muslim countries feel real free, for about 5 seconds...;

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