Churches of the West

I took these photographs last year, and posted them at our companion blog, Painted Bricks, where under this title: Painted Bricks: What is...

This is St. Patrick's Cathedral in Billings Montana. The Catholic Gothic Revival Cathedral was built in 1907.

Lex Anteinternet: Rerum Novarum : Something I missed awhile back, on the anniversary of its publication, was the 125th anniversary of Rerum ...

This is St. Ann's Catholic Church in Saratoga Wyoming.  It's obviously a relatively modern church, but I don't otherwise know...

A not very good photograph of the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Saratoga, Wyoming.  The church is obviously an older one, and is in th...

This is St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Hanna, Wyoming.  This modern Catholic church is located just on the edge of town where severa...

This is the LDS church in Hanna Wyoming, with a very poor depiction of the Assemblies of God church to its left.  Hanna has a collection...

This abandoned church sits in a ranch yard just outside of Ft. Fred Steele in Carbon County, Wyoming.  I have no other information on i...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Cognitive Disc... : I posted this item recently asserting that Mark Shea, who publishe...

Lex Anteinternet: A lawyers prayer : Thomas More , counselor of law and statesman of integrity, merry martyr and most human of saints: P...

These are photographs of the United Presbyterian Church in Laramie.  I'm unsure of the age of the church, but it's a la...

This is the Lutheran St. Andrew's Church and Campus Center in Laramie.  It's actually not very far away from another Lutheran ch...

  This is the Laramie Valley Chapel, a Baptist church which is an extraordinary large example of a Prairie Gothic church.  The church mus...

This is a bad photograph of the former church in Laramie Wyoming which is now the Muslim Students Association.  The church in the backgr...

Lex Anteinternet: You may not be interested in war, but war is inter... : "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in y...

This entry would also probably make more sense in our Today In Wyoming's History entries, but here is the location of the first ...

This entry more likely belongs at our Today In Wyoming's History blog, as it isn't so much of a church item (well maybe it ...

This is St. Anne's Catholic Church in Big Piney, Wyoming.  The church was built in 1934.

The Big Piney Community Congregational Church was built the same year that the Episcopal Church was, 1914.

This classic Prairie Gothic church was built by the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming in Big Piney in 1914.  Much of the western part of the s...

This is Christ Lutheran Church in Rawlins, Wyoming. I don't know any of the details of this church, other than it rather obvious...

Roads to the Great War: Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Sold... : Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in th...

Roads to the Great War: Father Duffy: Why Was He Beloved? : At Times Square New York Father Francis Duffy was the chaplain of New York...

Over on our most active blog, Lex Anteinternet: What are you reading? : What are you reading? A new trailing thread, dedicated to...

I know absolutely nothing whatsoever about this structure, or about the the institution that apparently owns it.  It belongs, apparently,...

This New England style church is located in the Capitol Hill district of Denver. I don't know much about it otherwise, but it is right...

Roads to the Great War: Veteran of the Great War and Saint: Padre Pio : Great War veteran Francesco Pio of Pietrelcina (25 May 1887–23 Septe...

The purpose of this blog is really to depict churches, not to comment on any one religion or church.   However, whenever you post photogr...

My mother.  April 23, 1925-April 9, 2016

This is a church that has been converted into the Chugwater Branch Library, a branch of the Platte County Library, in Chugwater Wyoming....

This is St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Atlantic City, Wyoming. The church was built in the then mining town in 1916.

This is the Oregon Trail Memorial Episcopal Church in small Eden Wyoming.  The Oregon Trail did in fact go right by Eden, which...

This is St. Christopher's Church in Eden, Wyoming.  This church is a mission church to the Catholic Churches in Rock Springs, Wyomin...

Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of Go...

This is Holy Communion Episcopal Church in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Based upon the appearance of the church, I strongly suspect it was an ...

These are very poor photographs of the Abbey of St. Walburga, a Benedictine Abbey in Northern Colorado.  The Abbey was dedicated in 1...