This is Our Lady of Sorrows in downtown Rock Springs, Wyoming. The Romanesque church was built in 1932, replacing an older Catholic Church that had served the English speaking community in Rock Springs.
Badly photographed ornate entry way to Our Lady of Sorrows.
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church was designed by the architectural firm, Maginnis & Walsh of Boston. Its history associates to the revival of mission of the Roman Church and renaissance of ecclesiastical art in the United States. Principal artist, Charles Donagh Maginnis, led the nation in church and mission art. Funds were made available by a benevolent movement from California to build Catholic churches across America which introduced the architectural style of Mission Revival, known to Maginnis. Our Lady of Sorrows church showed unique features of Mission Revival style and was namesake of Mission Delores in San Francisco. Churches designed by Maginnis were acknowledged as works of art. Vatican II put forth instructions to diocese for maintenance, protection, and preservation of its art. Among the most notable sacred buildings designed by Charles Donagh Maginnis was the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at Washington, D.C.
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