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Something else I located inside the same church from yesterday, in the passageway from the kitchen to the sanctuary. I guess preachers need to check their look before the preaching commences.
Simms, Texas
photographed 11.13.2021
Tabled
A country church with an unlocked door: it was a dream come true. And finding this wonderful table in the back room was like an extra reward for my efforts.
Simms, Texas
photographed 11.13.2021
we would see Jesus
A very nice woman in Alanreed, Texas, got the church keys from her mom and gave me a tour around the inside of the church. She showed me the whole place – the door where a homeless person broke in and the room where they lived for a while, some tiny Sunday school classrooms, the old church sign, and some very scary-looking stairs to the baptistry. This open hymnal was the best of everything she showed me.
Alanreed, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
Behind the Sacrament
Late the other Sunday afternoon, I was wandering around my part of Texas looking for a few things to photograph, and that’s how I happened to notice how nice the back of this church looked in the low autumn sun.
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
Wilson, Texas
photographed 10.3.2021
The Mother Church Gets a Facelift
I could see this place from my hotel window and after days and days of gazing down on it, I walked over for a closer look. The whole area – several buildings, a park, and a large reflecting pool – used to make up the headquarters of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Apparently, the church has lately sold some of the property to Northeastern University and I guess that gave them the cash they needed to renovate the 1894 Mother Church building.
The building on the right was part of a 1970s grand expansion of the church’s facilities. It was designed by famed architect I. M. Pei, and (believe it or not) won a bunch of awards, include the Prestressed Concrete Institute Award (1973), the Design Award of the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (1975), and (this one’s my favorite) the 1975 Harleston Parker Award from the Boston Society of Architects for the “most beautiful piece of architecture” built in Greater Boston in the past ten years.
Christian Science Plaza
Boston
photographed 9.5.2021
One Day | One Image 