Saint Rafael's Monastery

[Glory_Forever]

Hi all! I finally got enough daylight to take decent pictures of my Moc, although it almost crashed several times on the way to the door This really stretched my speed building skills as I only had a month to complete it before the Brickfair. I had to build the entire monastery with a week left till the Brickfair. I would have destroyed it several times if I was not already expected to bring it. Anyhow, I would like to thank Stefan,Blake,and Kris,for advising me. They were very helpful and encouraging. Here is the description that I had on my card:

A place of healing, Saint Rafael's Monastery is the dwelling place to the many monks whose homes where destroyed in the holy wars.

I hope you enjoyed looking, Noah
BTW what do the letters spell?

[Left4bricks]

It's a very impressive work, really; Your landscape is juste perfect, as realistic as it could be. The waterfall is the best i've ever seen (but i have not seen all of them), it seems so real. Also, we can immediately recognize the style of the stained glasses, good use of it. I hope you won't stop after this wonderful creation (and i'm sure you wont).

[BTappel]

Amazing landscape!

[Tower of Iron Will]

Wow, stunning. Landscape, the stained glass windows, the different type of designs on the sides, all very clever. Are those hebrew letters in the bottom windows?
-Tower

[koffiemoc]

Congrats on the landscape, especially the water and waterfall! I also like the natural looking earth path. The building is nice, though I don't understand why the abutment continues in the upper roof part. The hebrew writing in the catholic windows came as a surprise.

The middle two are clearly Aleph and Mem, The first one looks like He, but could be Het or Tav. The last one could be a final Nun (on a catholic building that would be a statement) or Vav. Then the yellow cheeseslopes might mark the vowels. If that's true, I don't understand the one with the Aleph. There exists no vowel placed above the baseline on the right side of a consonant. The last vowel must be Shuruk.
So that reads hmn, hmv, h(?)mnnu, h(?)mvu, or even some variation starting with a t.

I do like puzzles, but I don't speak, understand, nor read Hebrew. Couldn't you just use plain old tengwar? Elvish is so much more readable...

[Blego7]

Once again I will sing my adoration. Beautiful water, beautiful rocks, gorgeous landscape. Great stuff Noah!

[DARKspawn]

Wow. Your stonework and landscaping details are really awesome. The stainglass is an excellent detail. The waterfal ... perfect. So well done in every aspect, very inspirational

[Glory_Forever]

Thanks Guys! @koffiemoc It means Believe in Latin I did not know that much about Hebrew letters, I'll have to use that in my next Moc...

[koffiemoc]

I see. That'd be "אני מאמין" meaning "I believe", leaving out the pronoun "I". So its mem aleph mem yod nun, or in transcription m'myn.
According to wikipedia, google translate and my cryptograffic puzzle guts.

[Eklund]

Wow! All of the details are perfect. The stained glass windows are beautiful, and the snotwork on the water is well played. The roof of the building has so much style and is well done too. This is a very inspiring build, great job!

[Mark of Falworth]

This is truly great! My favorite part is the waterfall. Awesome build!