In answer to @happypat and @carole_sandford regarding their questions about this church not having any windows. I learned this mission church was built by the parishioners, they did not have an architect. They were farmers and they took the soil they worked with every day and mixed it with straw to build their church. They built really thick adobe walls to keep it cool in the summer and warm in the winter. It’s very dark in the church and for many years they only had candlelight. It is now electrified, but certainly not bright in the interior.
That’s Faith for you Lou Ann. Must have been a labour of love & by farmers who we are also. If I lived there this would be my church so would love to see inside if allowed plus your camera will take a photo in this dark interior. It’s rather splendid after the usual over the top churches we do see around the world….I like it!
I should have seen this image first much more interesting and well captured Lou Ann, I have a few books of Ansel Adams photographs he was inspirational for me from the age of 12 when my father gave me a book of his photographs in Yosemite, Fav:)
@pcoulson I found it so interesting that both Adams and O’Keeffe preferred the back of the church to the front. A simple and profound structure, even more so because it was built simply, of simple material.
