Friday, June 10, 2011

Bruce's Tour of Weird Churches



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SP Harrison had this link on FB. I collected more pictures of weird churches below. Dr. Jackson has experience on this subject:

Trending to Traditional
New churches and renovations are going old school, by ANTHONY FLOTT 06/07/2011

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/trending-to-traditional/

Catholic churches mentioned in the above article:

Seattle University’s Chapel of St. Ignatius:

http://www.seattleu.edu/missionministry/chapel/galleries/front/

Chapel of St. Basil at the University of St. Thomas in Houston:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chapel_of_St._Basil.png

St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn:

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=69085.msg1704353#msg1704353

Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco (Our Lady of Maytag):

http://walkinsanfrancisco.blogspot.com/2008/09/cathedral-of-st-mary-of-assumption.html

Other strange churches:

Generic weird suburban church with gas station-like overhangs:

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=69085.msg1704049#msg1704049

50 Weird Churches:
http://www.boredpanda.com/50-most-extraordinary-churches-of-the-world/

20 Weird Churches:
http://villageofjoy.com/20-unusual-churches-part-i/

http://villageofjoy.com/20-unusual-churches-part-ii/?cp=1

14 weird churches:
http://funpresident.com/2008/09/14-unusual-churches/

Weird church in Rome:
http://www.doobybrain.com/2007/09/19/jubilee-church-by-richard-meier/

Touch Down Jesus church. The Styrofoam and fiberglass statue was struck by lightning, no doubt because it is in front of high voltage lines:
http://gossipandgab.com/1249/weird-news-huge-ohio-touchdown-jesus-statue-burned-by-lightning

More churches -- one would fit in a Lord of the Rings set:
http://myatma.blogspot.com/2009/04/worlds-most-unusual-churches.html

Whale church in Germany:
http://nickbaines.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/joy-and-the-unbelievable-church/