184 Comments for Transfiguration of Our Lord

YES! Another already. WOW! (*_*)
Thank You so much for this new Gallery; and for the historical pictures and the current photo too, of a big plot of weed.
Now that we know this Beauty is Landfill - Your lovely soulful pictures are fair + even more important. Is sadness to know: gone.
Good work well done, am ever so grateful. May You always be well is the daily wish.

@John: Thanks

Looking at the surrounding neighborhood (which doesn't exactly look ike Beverly Hills) I see why these structures are left to rot. People don't want to invest in areas like this and so these beautiful grand ole' beauties suffer along with the neighborhoods. There was once a time when people worshipped here and cared for the building and its grounds but they moved away. So who's left to care? I see this a lot where I live-some of the most beautiful structures are in older, declining and crime ridden areas and no one cares. If I was a millionaire, I would save many of these, or at least salvage what I could out them and see what else could be done with the building. What are your thoughts on this Motts/

Just throwing this out there, but the people that once owned this church could have held an auction, maybe, and made money off all the beautiful features, statues, marble, etc that they just carelessly threw away. This country is turning into a land of "just toss it out because it has no value". Like a comment I said earlier, just those hanging lamps alone people would pay good money for them--vintage fixtures are hot nowadays.

Anyway, thanks Motts for letting us get a last glimpse into such a beautiful building! You run a great sight with much value. I'd LOVE to do what you do--my idol!

Wow! Motts are these statues or just carvings that stand out from the wall? Either way these people are plain nuts to leave such beautiful work like they did!

*sigh* gonna be quiet here, lol

At risk of sounding like a broken record, man, they should totally save this! The square footage and space alone is worth saving this place for, sad

Yeah, y'all know me but I would totally love this as wallpaper-has a ertain sense of eeriness to it. But that stonework is amazing-man, the work put into this place is not like any church I've seen

Wow, I bet if you went back in just a few years all that beautiful stuff would be gone. They really could have salvaged that

There are MANY people that would pay pretty good money just to have that hanging lamp--sad it'll probably end up in the landfill :(

I like the roundness of this area

Wow, this place is massive! A church under a church. Must have been a bit creepy down there--well I get that vibe anyway, lol

That's what I'm not understanding, but I guess it's not for us to understand. They have their reasons, no matter how ludicrous. I hate seeing places like this left to rot.

Until the vandals get in and go to town on it. Sad but true

That is amazingly beautiful!