Is it a church?

[didymus]

On The Crescat blog they have pictures of twelve ugly buildings and a contest to see who can correctly identify which of them are churches.

Here are a couple of the “contestants”.

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Looks like a prison for me, but who knows?

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I suspect this one is some Frank Lloyd Wright wannabe on acid’s idea of a “worship space”.

 

[Publisher]

The first one looks like it could be a Friend’s Meeting House…very plain.

 

[Phemie]

I actually get the idea of the second one and figure it’s a Catholic church in a Native-American parish. While it’s quite different, it reminds me of a nearby native parish where the altar is shaped like a canoe because of the importance of that transportation to the community.

 

[didymus]

The Crescat has now revealed which buildings are churches. She has also promised to post a “parade of rejects” – pics of ugly churches that folks have sent her.

 

[Phemie]

The person who’d started the contest had said that all were Catholic churches but that turns out not to be so. The second one, which I thought was Native American, turns out to be a non-denominational chapel on a development in California. I still like it.

If you’ve been to the contest the Quonset hut church is in Maui. I found other quonset hut churches on the web, Our Lady of Grace and Our Lady of the Way. There’s actually a book that details how these churches came about.