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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.

One could be distracted by such beauty that they wouldn't hear the sermon.

Sadness. How did this sheet music end up lying there?

Soon...strip malls, burger joints, and CVS's will be built where once stood beautiful stone edifices such as this church.

If you lick the walls, can you taste people's thoughts?

The amount of work put into this gorgeous building only to have it be torn down, so sad.

Wow this is amazing!!

Yeah, you are right, eldokid@aol.com - things change; words change - one of the reasons this beautiful Church is now landfill.
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Maybe we are not lighthearted and carefree anymore????? (*_*) It really IS such a lovely word! Light. Short. Pretty sound. I love it.

Thank you, Motts for yet another fantastic ride! So sad it was demoed. So sad morons got to buy these old structures. Thank you for perserving this in pictures for the world to see.

Until the NEXT gallery!!! ; )

What Mica said!