A blog dedicated to photographs of churches and church architecture in the Rocky Mountain West.
Showing posts with label Tulsa Oklahoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tulsa Oklahoma. Show all posts
Friday, April 27, 2012
First Baptist Church, Tulsa Oklahoma
First Baptist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma, demonstrating an unusual combination of Romanesque styling and modern office building styling.
Trinity Episcopal Church, Tulsa Oklahoma
This is Trinity Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's a downtown church of classic Gothic styling, but otherwise I don't know any of the details on it.
Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Tulsa Oklahoma
This is the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The church combines Gothic features with Art Deco features, reflecting its construction in 1929.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Cathedral of the Holy Family, Tulsa Oklahoma
These photographs were taken in low light, and therefore they are unfortunately not too good.
These depict Tulsa's Catholic Cathedral, Holy Family Cathedral. Like the other Tulsa churches depicted here, this Cathedral is located in a downtown district featuring many churches. The Cathedral features Gothic and Romanesque architecture and was built in 1914. It was the tallest building in Tulsa at the time it was built. It's a much better looking church than these photographs would suggest.
The church was not built as a cathedral, but became one when Diocese of Tulsa was established in 1972.
First United Methodist Church of Tulsa, Tulsa Oklahoma
First Presbytrian Church, Tulsa Oklahoma
This is the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. As is obvious from the photograph, this church was undergoing extensive construction at the time I photographed it in October, 2011. The church was built in 1926.
Like the nearby Roman Catholic Holy Family Cathedral, this church as both Gothic and Romanesque features.
First Christian Church, Tulsa Oklahoma
This unusual church is the First Christian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Located in downtown Tulsa, in a district which includes several classically styled churches, this church, which I otherwise know nothing about, was dedicated in 1940.
The church has a very Byzantine appearance, and upon seeing it I mistook it for a Greek Orthodox Church. The unusual appearance is somewhat accentuated by the presence of a Christian Scientist church across the street, which I did not photograph as it was fully in shadow at the time I was there, which also features a very large dome and Greek classical features. The church is extremely Eastern in appearance, and while a beautiful structure, this choice of architecture is curious for the denomination.
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