Live Church Webcams

Church webcams show cathedrals, churches, chapels and monasteries. Most look at the building from outside — the façade, the bell tower, the square in front — while some parishes stream the interior so that services can be followed from home.

For believers, such a stream is a way to attend mass or a service when they cannot be there in person: during illness, while travelling or from another country. For everyone else, the camera shows a church as part of a town's life — weddings on the steps, processions on feast days, tourists at the portal, bells ringing on festive mornings.

The church year shapes the picture. Christmas and Easter bring the largest crowds, decorations and night services, saints' days bring processions, and Sundays the familiar rhythm of worshippers arriving and leaving. After dark many churches are floodlit, which makes the façade the brightest thing in the frame.