ALL Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and other religions - What does your Church or place of worship look like?

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Namaste, members of CAF.

I thought it would be interesting to know what your churches/parishes/house of worship look like. If you have a website link or stored photos of your church or parish/house of worship, please post them here and please let us know of your affiliation/denomination you belong to.

*Optional: A photo of you and/or your immediate family if you are courageous enough. Its always nice to put a face to our usernames. 😃

I’ll start with mine: I’m Roman Catholic and i attend the Franciscan parish of Saint Mary of the Angels, Singapore.

Website link of my parish: smota.org/
Our parish won awards for its architectural design and art for the year 2006.
The President’s Design Award is the nation’s highest recognition of exceptional people of this country, who have played a part not only in creating objects, images and spaces that have made lives more interesting and more comfortable, but have also trail-blazed our pursuit of excellence in design.
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        The Church of St. Mary of the Angels has received the President's Design Award in 2006.
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SMOTA Gatherings Photos site:
cathopologist.com/photo-archive/

In the attached pictures, the one on the right is of myself, wife and son. The attached picture on the left is with Ashwyn’s Godparents on his day of baptism, 2008. 🙂
 
My church meets in a local theater (as in a stage, not a cinema) as we don’t have our own building. We’re a fairly small congregation (around 60 people), and while a number of members would like a building of our own someday, for now it allows us to use our financial resources on things besides grounds maintenance. It’s not grand, but we set it up appropriately each week for our service.

I’ve long been of a mixed mind with regard to church buildings. On one hand, there’s the view that having a beautiful elaborate building is like the woman who poured perfume on Jesus’ feet: a great expenditure as a show of love for God. On the other hand, I have seen churches that seem much more focused on pouring resources into their building than in using resources for ministry in their community.

I also was very fond of the sign outside of the church I attended before I moved most recently. It said " meets here". A subtle but important reminder that a church is not a building, but a community of believers 🙂
 
OneTrueCathApos said:
Where is the Curcified Christ? I don’t see any crosses. Are they in the background?
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He is Presbyterian; that’s a Presbyterian church. The give-away is the design on the front of the communion table (and the fact that there is a Bible and some flowers on it; not a chalice and paten). 🙂
 
OneTrueCathApos said:
Oh ok, but I still don’t see any crosses? Why?
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There is a small cross inlaid into the centre panel above the pulpit; it’s difficult to see because it’s not actually hanging in front of the panel; it’s actually part of the wood, itself. It also hasn’t got a corpus on it, which makes it even harder to see - but it is there.
 
Ok, but (and I’m sorry, I am very inquisitive), isn’t Jesus Christ the center of our faith? Should he not be looked upon and worshipped during this gathering? It’s just that every church I’ve ever been in has a cross large enough to meditate on and to pray. I know Protestant churches other than Presbyterians have a cross hanging, although there is no Christ hanging there, it’s still there. And that one I cannot figure out because they seem to just focus on the Resurrection and not the Passion, when the Passion was the reason for our sins and happened in order to receive the Resurrection…
 
OneTrueCathApos said:
Ok, but (and I’m sorry, I am very inquisitive), isn’t Jesus Christ the center of our faith? Should he not be looked upon and worshipped during this gathering? It’s just that every church I’ve ever been in has a cross large enough to meditate on and to pray. I know Protestant churches other than Presbyterians have a cross hanging, although there is no Christ hanging there, it’s still there. And that one I cannot figure out because they seem to just focus on the Resurrection and not the Passion, when the Passion was the reason for our sins and happened in order to receive the Resurrection…
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I think I should defer to a Presbyterian to answer this one. 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
I think I should defer to a Presbyterian to answer this one. 🙂
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There is a cross on the communion table. It is usually more visible when there is not a Thanksgiving display on it as there was for this photo.

The Bible is usually on the lectern on the left.
 
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