Things in Zurich That Don't Involve Eating

Here are two more shots of Grossmuenster in Zurich, shown also in a photo below. Grossmuenster, whose sanctuary is actually quite small, was nevertheless the headquarters of the Protestant Reformation in Zurich. This was Zwingli's church, and because of his push for iconoclasm (literally, 'image-breaking'), the church is adorned with almost no artwork and presents a drastic antithesis to churches in Rome. Some bits of wall-paintings have been recovered inside, preserved, I believe, because they had been walled up when the church was stripped of its images. Because of its simplicity combined with its imposing Romanesque (I think) architecture, the atmosphere of the church is austere.

Zwingli was succeeded at Grossmuenster by Heinrich Bullinger, and his statue is on the outside of the church building. He doesn't look like the kind of guy I'd want to mess with.