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Church in rural Georgia

The nave with octagonal piers covered with stencilling.

The seriously impressive St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, dominating the junction of Grosvenor Crescent and Lansdowne Crescent. Designed by George Gilbert Scott, of Glasgow University and classic red telephone box fame, and his son Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott and opened in 1879. #stmarysepiscopalcathedral #stmarysedinburgh #edinburghcathedral #cathedral #church #edinburghchurch #scottishchurches #scottisharchitecture #churcharchitecture⛪️ #edinburgh #georgegilbertscott #placeofworship #palmerstonplace

Village Pokrovskoye, Ruza Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

Closed and repurposed in the 1960s. Returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1996.

This is one of the side aisles with dramatic light fixtures formed of spheres and cuboid shades, supported and enclosed by slender extended rectangular forms.

Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.

 

The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.

 

Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.

 

The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.

Village Paveltsevo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

The church was founded in 2000 when the local Orthodox community received the abandoned house of a road worker. The house was completely renovated. The first church service was held in April 2002. The church bells were taken from the church in nearby village Tarkhovo. Father Boris is the arch-priest of both the Tarkhovo church and the Paveltsevo church.

  

In the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire, 08 April 2014

The Church of Salla in Lapland Finland was constructed 1948-1950. The previous church in Salla was destroyed during the WWII. The funding for the new church to be built in Salla was organized through parish collections in Denmark. The church was designed by Finnish architects Eero Eerikäinen and Osmo Sipari.

Metamorfosi tou Sotiros. Hellinikon, Athens, Greece

United Methodist Church in Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina

Village Nikolskoye, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

Saint Nikolas Church was built by Alexey Danilovich Tatishchev (1697-1760) over the period 1738-1758. The church was closed and repurposed in 1937. The bell tower was demolished sometime in the 1950s in order to provide construction bricks for the nearby farm. The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1995. Restoration began in 1995. Church Services are currently held in a small, heated chapel inside the church.

 

It is interesting to note that village Nikolskoye was the birthplace of the XVII c. Russian church architect Jacob Bukhvostov.

Detail from the Annunciation Altar at Stone.

Holy Cross, Austin

1610 E 11th St, Austin, Texas, US

Roman Catholic Parish Church

historically African-American

 

Leo Danze, Danze & Davis, architects (1979)

 

1935, founded

1937, constructed

1979, reconstructed

25 November 1979, dedicated

Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, Houston

2222 Elgin Ave, Third Ward, Houston, Texas, US

 

1941, completed

 

Abandonded church for an African-American Christian Scientist congregation across the street from Emancipation Park. As of summer 2014, shows signs of renovations and repairs underway.

 

www.houstondeco.org/1940s/sixth.html

Small church in Huntington Beach. Several different congregations called this home at one time or another now it sits empty and forlorn.

Vintage 1950's style LDS chapel located on 400 East at about 400 North in Orem. There are several chapels built in this style all over the United States.

Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.

 

The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.

 

Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.

 

The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.

 

Spotted at St George's Church, Clun

Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast

 

The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.

 

The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.

 

Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.

 

The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Saint Mikhail the Archangel is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.

 

When the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Bloomfield was built in 1961, it was a bit controversial. Many people were unsure about its severely modern architecture. Situated on an odd-shaped plot of urban land across a narrow street from West Penn Hospital, the unusual angles and arches and walls of stained glass have created a sanctuary which is at the same time large and intimate, and not at all austere as are many modern churches.

 

Because of declining city population, Immaculate Conception has merged with two other churches, another in Bloomfield and one in Lawrenceville, to form St. Maria Goretti Parish. It remains one of the few churches in the city whose doors can be found open every day.

Details of the carving on the Choir Screen.

Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.

 

The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.

 

Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.

 

The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.

 

Trifonovskaya St at Olympic Ave

 

Aug 2014 PS. Consecrated on 17 Sep 2013. Apparently now known as the Armenian Monastery Complex of Moscow. Shown here is the west end of the Church of the Holy Cross. For a description of the complex, see: www.ghulyan.com/#!armenian-monastery-complex/cuz6 and www.armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/48578/armenian_church...

  

Our Lady of Victory Cathedral, Victoria

1311 E Mesquite Ln, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, US

Roman Catholic Cathedral, Diocese of Victoria

 

1957 – Erected

1982 – Designated Cathedral

Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.

 

The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.

 

Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.

 

The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.

To see a video of this church and hear it's bells follow this link; youtu.be/qXx9IUI_2Wc

 

I saw some amazing architecture on my stroll through Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The Rockefeller Chapel towers over the intersection of Woodlawn & E. 59th St. It's vertical style standing in stunning contrast to the horizontal nature of Frank Loyd Wright's Robie House which is on the east side of Woodlawn. The chapel was designed by famed early 20th century architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. It was completed in 1928, the final gift to the University of Chicago from benefactor and founder John D. Rockefeller, for whom the Chapel was named after his death.

Merton College Chapel. Its history is described by the college here - Oxford, 24 October 2010

St Mary the Virgin, Hampton Poyle. The building dates from the thirteenth century and was restored in 1844 and then in 1870 by G. E. Street, the Gothic Revivalist whose best-known work is probably the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in London.

 

In Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, 09 November 2014

In Southwark Cathedral, looking towards the altar -

 

London SE1, 09 February 2017

Village Podzhigorodovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia

 

The church was built in 1778-1783 by two brothers Yurevyh, local noblemen who had a large manor here. It's believed that the architect was the famous Russian architect Vasily Bazhenov. Unusual two-story church with the winter church on the first floor and the summer church on the second floor. The exterior was plastered and whitewashed in 1906.

 

The last owner of the Podzhigorodovo manor was nobleman Vladimir Sokolov. He was a revolutionary and his party nickname was Volsky. Vladimir Lenin visited Sokolov before the 1917 revolution. There's a photo of Lenin playing chess with Sokolov in his Podzhigorodovo manor house.

 

Olga remembers climbing the bell tower as a child. The church was used then to store chemical fertilizer. She still recalls the smell of the fertilizer and the treacherous circular staircase.

 

The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. Services are presently held in the first floor winter church. The second floor summer church has not been restored. Like many rural churches in Russia, the Church of Archangel Michael is undergoing slow restoration and still dominates the surrounding landscape.

The nave at St. Aidan's Cathedral Enniscorthy lined with beautifully stencilled Gothic arches.

Suzdal Raion, Vladimir Oblast, Russia (Суздальский Района, Владимирская Область, Россия)

 

Perhaps the most imposing village church I've seen in Russia.

 

Camera on tripod

 

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