Christ Church, Coromandel town, New Zealand. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Although I’m not religious, I do find churches places of great serenity.
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Christ Church, Coromandel town, New Zealand. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Although I’m not religious, I do find churches places of great serenity.
Beautiful—is that typical of church architecture in NZ? I love the simplicity and clean lines.
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I think most rural churches in NZ are very simple like that. Probably the majority of our early European settlers were Protestant, and many were Scottish Presbyterians, so the combination of basic materials and a rather austere aesthetic probably kept them pretty plain.
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I’ve seen that same type of church architecture in some rural areas in the US. It appeals to me!
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🙂 I think that when people have less to work with, the results are often better.
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Lovely photo Su. Is that sunrise or sunset?
Leslie
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Thanks Leslie. It was sunset 🙂
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It looks so dramatic over the church.
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Stunning! Love the composition and the beautiful colours! 😄 xxxxxx
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Thank you so much. It was one of those “omg stop the car moments”! Luckily T is a good driver (and extremely patient) 🙂
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Your photo of a classic New Zealand church takes me straight back to my childhood as daughter of a country vicar in Canterbury. Thanks!
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I’m so glad you like it. I love both the unity and variety in small, rural churches. 🙂
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Love the ray of sunlight captured here too.
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Thanks. It seemed so appropriate, I had to get T to stop the car!
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Great light in this shot, Su. I found the churches we visited in France to be serene as well as awesome, in the traditional sense of the word, as many of them were more like cathedrals. Our church is nothing so grand, but I still enjoy being there.
janet
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Thanks Janet. I love traditional churches, especially the grand old European churches. But I am increasingly attracted to the stillness of NZ’s rural churches which are often set apart in quite isolated places. 🙂
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I really love the rays of sunlight in this one.
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Thank you. It was such a lucky shot (lucky the Big T could stop the car when I started yelling and waving my arms around that I wanted to get that shot). 🙂
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Haha! I love it. 🙂
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Beautifully serene. I agree with you about churches. In part I think it’s the solemn-ness. But also the general simplicity of these smaller churches.
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I think that’s it too. There is something very attractive about those little (generally white) structures with their distinctive architecture nestled into the landscape.
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