I included a similar photo in a previous year’s blog. We pay almost everything with cards on this trip and I’m glad to see the church keeping up with the times. But I am including this photo because of the photo I did not take and so cannot show. After I took this I looked to the right and saw a “No photos” sign. I was tempted to take a photo of it but I like to respect rules like that, their church, their rules, only fair. I wouldn’t have taken the first photo if I had seen the sign.
If you made a donation I’m sure they wouldn’t have minded your taking a photo of the donation (and the “no photos”) sign. That’s not the same as photographing the church, or worse, people worshipping.
That does make me feel a little better. I remember taking photos inside of churches in Italy and I’m pretty sure it was allowed.
Unless they’ve changed the rules taking photos inside churches in Italy is allowed. I’ve done it in a bazillion places. I’m sure there are a few churches where it is prohibited and often it is prohibited at certain times, like during funerals. No problems in Austria or Germany either. Or Britain, except last time we were in Durham cathedral they had up a no photos sign. I think it was a crowd control issue.
Years ago in Rome I ducked into the Maria del Popolo church off the Piazza del Popolo to take a shot of Caravaggio’s “St Paul on the road to Damascus” and was shooed away by a priest because a church service was about to begin.
Christy and I visited Russia on a youth tour in 1970 and our tour guide took us right through a church while a service was going on. We were quite embarrassed.