Churches of the West

St. Anthony is a very popular patron saint for Catholic Churches in Wyoming for reasons of which I'm not aware. This is one of three...

There are at least two Lutheran churches in tiny Belfield Montana, including this Prairie Gothic church.

One of four Catholic Churches in Belfield, North Dakota, this beautiful Romanesque style church dates back to the 1950s.

Belfield, North Dakota has a population of 800 people and four Catholic Churches, which says something about the nature of this region o...

This is St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Church which is outside of Fairfield, North Dakota.  The church is over a century old and gives...

This Prairie Gothic Catholic Church in tiny Grassy Butte, North Dakota, is closed, a victim of the declining fortunes of small farming t...

A contemporary designed church in Fairview, Montana.

This is the Community Presbyterian Church in Fairview, Montana. This small Gothic style church in north eastern Montana is just outside o...

These are photos of St. David's Catholic Church in Broadus Montana. The Prairie Gothic style church was built in 1931 and is a mi...

This Gothic style church is the First Lutheran Church in Watford City, North Dakota. The church was originally built in 1915, expanded...

A theme, if not always an obvious one, of this blog is architecture. And  nothing does more violence to traditional, serviceable, and b...

Lex Anteinternet: Arras Cathedral, April 30, 1917

This is the First Baptist Church in Big Piney, Wyoming.  Other than its identify, I don't know anything about it.

Our Lady Derzhavnaya, Icon, found in Kolomenskoye, Russia after having been lost during Napoleonic invasion. Our Lady Derzhavnaya, ic...

This is St. Brendan Mission Church in Jeffrey City, Wyoming.  The Church is served by Holy Rosary Church in Lander Wyoming . This is...

This is the Eden Valley Baptist Church in Farson Wyoming.  Other than that is what it is, I don't know anything else about it.

These photographs are of the Mormon church in Farson Wyoming.  I was stopped to take a photograph of something else at the time, which e...

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene: Casper's Downtown Century O... : Recently we posted an item that addressed a number of local ev...

Another one of the many Casper churches I hadn't gotten around to photographing, Christ United Methodist Church as photographed out m...

This is Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Pinedale, Wyoming.   Construction of the church commenced in November, 1959 (in the winter!)...

Early morning, and poorly focused, photograph of Pinedale's St. Andrew's In the Pines in Pinedale, Wyoming.  This is a nice log s...

Late afternoon photo in shadows of the Community United Church of Christ in Pinedale.   It's obviously fairly new, but I don't kn...

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene: Painted Bricks: Virgin Mary... : Painted Bricks: Virgin Mary Mural in Salt Lake City : I...

This is  the new Co Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, which replaced the old one in 2005.  The new cathedral is a very large church located ...

This is the old Co Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston Texas.  The new Co Cathedral is located one block over and this cathedral, o...