Sacred Architecture - Sanctuary

  • Thread starter Thread starter PA650
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
P

PA650

Guest
Although another thread pertaining ecclesiastical architecture does exist within the Liturgy and Sacraments forum. This particular thread is in regard to the design of the sanctuary of Catholic churches. Therefore, I encourage all to post photos of the sanctuary of your parish and parishes you may have visited.

The following photos entail the sanctuary of the parish I attend, St. Mary Catholic Church in Eugene, Oregon:

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
I don’t have one good picture, so you’ll have to piece it together in your mind.

This is St. Patrick’s, part of The Cathedral Parish of St. Raphael. We aren’t crazy about the Risen Christ image behind the altar, but that’s what we have to deal with for now.

http://www.isthmuscatholic.org/pictures/IMG_9976.jpg

http://www.isthmuscatholic.org/pictures/IMG_9857.jpg

Here’s more

St. Pats 1
St. Pats 2
St. Pats 3.

We also attend St. Mary’s in Pine Bluff occasionally.

http://tlm.yankehome.com/img/full/Pre-Mass altar 1.jpg

http://tlm.yankehome.com/img/full/Pre-Mass Talk 3.jpg
See more here:
tlm.yankehome.com/

And just so you know, at St. Mary’s (the second one), that was the Bishop, but St. Mary’s isn’t part of the Cathedral Parish. It is just a good venue for a Latin Mass. That’s it from me.
 
Thank you for the wonderful posts, VetA and Catholicben. The sanctuaries of parishes east of the Mississippi are extraordinary examples of divine ecclesiastical architecture.
 
PA650 said:
Thank you for the wonderful posts, VetA and Catholicben. The sanctuaries of parishes east of the Mississippi are extraordinary examples of divine ecclesiastical architecture.
Click to expand...
in my opinion it is because we are ‘older’ just an opinion. also im from new orleans that VERY catholic (mardi gras is the celebration before lent when we have to chill out on the party) im blessed i guess…

here is a link to a website that has a bunch of pictures of catholic churches in the new orleans (as well as protestant if you want to look at them too)

neworleanschurches.com/

here is a link to another picture of st patrick’s taken from the choir loft

oldstpatricks.org/images/altar3.jpg

if youre interested this is the link to thier website

oldstpatricks.org/
 
Sarabande and VetA:

HOW DID YOU FIND SUCH AWESOME CHURCHES?!?!?!
 
I’ve been posting pics of my parish’s newly-renovated church every chance I get 😊 Thanks for giving me another opportunity! The header of this page still has a picture of our former altar. About half-way down the page, there’s an excellent before and after comparison:

2008remodel.wordpress.com/

And just for good measure, here’s a picture of our adoration chapel, renovated in the past couple years:

2008remodel.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/architectcolorado-1-holy-trinitys-adoration-chapel/

Thanks be to God for this beautiful new place to offer the sacrifice of the Mass 👍

Gertie
 
Catholicben said:
Sarabande and VetA:

HOW DID YOU FIND SUCH AWESOME CHURCHES?!?!?!
Click to expand...
Haha! I think part of it has something to do with what VetA mentioned. I live in a very Catholic and “old” (relatively speaking in terms of the history of Catholics in the US) area of the country. Pennsylvania was on the earliest colonies in the New World which permitted Catholics to worship freely due to the fact that it was originally a Quaker colony and they were pretty fair in terms of freedom of religion.

So, we have many old churches dating back to the 18th century, to a huge amount erected during the 19th and early 20th centuries which were built with the love, talent and money of the Catholic lay people. A lot of the most beautiful churches I’ve been fortunate to work in as a freelance musician were built in the working class and middleclass neighborhoods. Funny thing is that the parishes in which there wasn’t much money, didn’t have the interiors changed to look like a 1960s/1970s conglomeration of bad taste if you know what I mean. So, they kept their beauty. The parishes which had some extra money or were more affluent did a number to their sanctuaries. For instance, my parish almost had all of their side altars destroyed when they tried to tear them out to put these horrible, ugly 1970s/80s edifices. Two were destroyed, but the rest of the project was fortunately stopped by the parish. And only a couple years ago were they finally replaced those side altars with beautiful marble altars taken from a recently closed old parish dedicated to Mary and Joseph on either side. Over the last few years, the diocese has worked to try to make things right with the interiors - mostly to move the tabernacles back to the center after they were torn out and moved to the sides back in the 60s/70s.

The second post of the little church, St. Joseph’s, is nestled in a very rural area of upstate Pennsylvania. There are farms and mountains surrounding it as it sits upon a little hill. It’s so beautiful to see from afar when you are driving to it for mass. The sad thing is that it is probably one of the loveliest churches in that area as it didn’t have it’s sanctuary destroyed, but it is one of the ones they are closing. (A number of the churches up there were pretty much stripped bare inside - at least from what I saw in old photographs of the other churches - all charming churches in their own right as well.)
 
Gertabelle - Your parish did a beautiful job with the renovation. 🙂
 
 
If you want to see something sad this is what the sanctuary of second oldest church in Philadelphia used to look like:

1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjeltYfsojk/Su3K555qc5I/AAAAAAAAAMc/Fb1FdUo1DLE/s1600-h/Old+St.+Mary+Sanctuary.JPG

Here is what it looks like now, except that they have since placed the tabernacle in the middle where the priest’s chair is situated in the pic:

1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjeltYfsojk/Su3LSCvR_LI/AAAAAAAAAMk/yRN5_akMgi4/s1600-h/StMaryAltar_WEB.jpg

It’s not terribly ugly, but it’s just a shame that someone had this brilliant idea of tearing it apart in the 1970s.
 
lifted this from the Net
this is the parish i grew up in, Our Lady of Lourdes in Quezon City, Philippines

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
choy said:
lifted this from the Net
this is the parish i grew up in, Our Lady of Lourdes in Quezon City, Philippines

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/emmanuelkristofer/OurLadyofLourdesChurch.jpg
Click to expand...
Beautiful, choy! It’s nice to see church pictures from the Philippines.

This was my mother’s parish where she grew up. St. Clements in La Paz, IloIlo City.

scrimgeour.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/1550-mass-st-clements1.jpg

farm1.static.flickr.com/48/130039128_7fd6d2e999.jpg
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top