515 Comments Posted by Darlene

I can picture inebriated teenagers daring each other to climb this tower.

There must be some kind of thrill that people get from breaking windows in abandoned buildings.

What? The scavengers didn't take them?

Ah....instead of the lone chair, it's the lone tire!

To think that this place was buzzing with activity at one time. Hard to imagine.

Motts, I could never have figured out what this was if you hadn't said.

Now, what color of green would that be called? Spring green? Mint green? Seems it was popular back in the day.

And here we go again. More photos of lovely decaying buildings. Hooray!

Thank you for preserving history, Motts!

The angels stood guard, watching over the parishioners as they worshiped for those many years. Now, there job at this church is over.

And now, sadly, the entire building is finished. :-(

All the time and effort put into this building and now....poof - gone.

Here is a wiki article about Ad orientem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_orientem

Mica, why do you say "facing south?" I ask because it is my understanding that the Catholic churches built in the old days had the altar facing the East. At the time that this church was built, the priest faced *Ad orientem* which means to the East, and the mass celebrated was the Tridentine. The rubrics were quite precise and followed religiously - pun intended.

I especially like organs and pianos in these old abandoned buildings. In this case, it is baffling how this organ could be left to decay and then destroyed.