Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Catedral de San Sarkis, Teherán, Irán, 2016-09-17, DD 66-68 HDR.jpg

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File:Catedral de San Sarkis, Teherán, Irán, 2016-09-17, DD 66-68 HDR.jpg, featured[edit]

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Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran
OK! Daniel Case (talk) 19:06, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan, please take into account that this is a photo with people in it. Having moving, living beings in an indoors-picture with poor light, will limit the options you have of long exposures as well as the number of shots you can take. All that will affect the overall quality of the pic. If you want a "Diliff-quality" shot of a place with people, you would probably have to equip them with neck supports first. --cart-Talk 14:43, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I understand that, but the static things in the place are shot at the same time as the people so the same settings are used on those too. And seeing now that Poco couldn't use a tripod, I'd say it's remarkable that the photo is as good as it is. --cart-Talk 18:30, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan: Sorry for not answering your first comment earlier. I didn't manage to upload a new version until now. I've applied some selective sharpening, maybe you find it acceptable. The quality of this shoot is surely not comparable to many others here mainly because tripods are strictly prohibited in the temple so I had to perform the three shots (it's a HDR) handheld, which was not easy. Poco2 17:56, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Moderate  Support - much better, and thanks for talking about the conditions you worked under. Gnosis, does that ban apply to tourists, too, and do they ban Jews from visiting churches and Christians from visiting synagogues? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:32, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think this ban applies to tourists, because the government wants to showcase religious tolerance to the western world. With regard to your question about Jews being able to visit churches and Christians being able to visit synagogues, I don't think there is any ban for that, because what the theocratical regime cares is that Iranian Shia muslims DO NOT convert. Also I don't know if you know this but Tehran is the only Islamic capital where there is no Sunni mosque there. Iran has 15 percent Sunnis and Sunnis consist of about 85 to 90 percent of total population of muslims. This is perfect example of their religious oppression towards even other muslims. --Gnosis (talk) 04:17, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
No, I didn't know that. Unfortunately, I don't think that kind of intercommunal intolerance is uncommon. Most people wouldn't expect that a Muslim country that's as relatively mild as Malaysia would prohibit Shi'ahs from preaching or having any place of worship throughout the country, but that's exactly what they do, so it's presumably worse in that respect than Iran, where Sunnis presumably have mosques in Khuzestan and some other places. But intolerance in any guise is very bad. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:43, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. --Gnosis (talk) 21:05, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 12:46, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
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