Showing posts with label Rock Springs Wyoming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock Springs Wyoming. Show all posts

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Holy Communion Episcopal Church, Rock Springs Wyoming.


This is Holy Communion Episcopal Church in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Based upon the appearance of the church, I strongly suspect it was an old structure that was added on to, but I haven't found any inofrmaiton to support that. The older part of the church, or what I think is the older part, is a classic English Gothic style structure. The bask side, which is not depicted here, is much more modern and frankly doesn't really work very well, architecturally, with the older portions of the building.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, Rock Springs Wyoming.


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.


Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church, Rock Springs Wyoming


This Romanesque church was built in 1912 after a protracted period of time in which efforts were made to build a church specifically for the Catholic Slavic population of Rock Springs, which was quite pronounced at the time. The church was named after brothers Cyril and Methodius who had been the evangelists to the Slavs.  The first pastor was Austrian born Father Anton Schiffrer who was suited to the task given his knowledge of Slavic languages.