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The Ugliest Churches In The World
Catholic Vote ^ | July 11, 2014 | JOHN WHITE

Posted on 07/12/2014 2:56:37 PM PDT by NYer

A little something for the weekend.

Over at Real Clear Religion, Nicholas G. Hahn III has a slideshow of the ugliest churches in the world. They represent several denominations, but the vast majority are – you guessed it – Roman Catholic.

Below are just a few of these architectural miscarriages, all of them Catholic. See the rest here.

 

ugly church 8

 

ugly church

 

ugly church 2

 

ugly church 3

 

ugly church 4

 

ugly church 7

 


TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Culture; Worship
KEYWORDS: architecture
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To: NYer

Kind of strange attending a church, where upon seeing the structure you think to yourself

“What the Hell is that?”


41 posted on 07/12/2014 3:50:38 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: SES1066

Or something that kids would design with building blocks.


42 posted on 07/12/2014 3:56:38 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

No wonder people do not go to church. That is very depressing.


43 posted on 07/12/2014 4:04:52 PM PDT by MamaB
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OT; but I think this is one of the most beautiful churches I've seen- the Methodist church on the bay front in Corpus Christi, Tx. (mainly due to the statue of Christ in front, 'It Is I', by Kent Ulberg.

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This is a photo I took of it looking out to sea:

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Years ago there was a wonderful project underway to build a massive statue of Christ (similiar to the one in Rio) to on the high bluff downtown, but the Libs finally voted it down.

44 posted on 07/12/2014 4:06:10 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: NYer

Ugliest church in NY is the building that replaced the one my father knew as his boyhood parish: St John the Evangelist. It’s better known today as 1011 First Avenue, headquarters of the NY Archdiocese. It had the misfortune of sitting on prime midtown real estate.


45 posted on 07/12/2014 4:18:28 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: NYer
No accounting for taste - I like it!

My own Church looks like the Brady Bunch's living room. Very ugly, although not quite as ugly as the ones in the original post.

46 posted on 07/12/2014 4:21:01 PM PDT by old and tired
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To: NYer
We have a Catholic and an Episcopal cathedral here. Both built in the 70s. Both hideous.


47 posted on 07/12/2014 4:31:53 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: NYer

48 posted on 07/12/2014 4:38:09 PM PDT by buridan
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To: buridan; NYer

My first thought of this one was a WWII German bunker on the Atlantic Wall that was partly renovated into a church.


49 posted on 07/12/2014 4:46:33 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: NYer

Junkhenge?


50 posted on 07/12/2014 5:12:08 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("How can there be peace when the sorceries and whordoms of your mother TBN are so many?")
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To: NYer

The first has a striking resemblance to a WWII bunker.


51 posted on 07/12/2014 5:27:34 PM PDT by PJBankard (You can't fix stupid.)
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To: NYer

This site mocks modern architecture - in a funny way
http://unhappyhipsters.com/
The earlier entries, when it first started, are hilarious.


52 posted on 07/12/2014 5:31:51 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
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To: NYer
Yup, those are ugly.

But I'd like to offer this former Episcopal Cathedral in Michigan. The diocese was so broke, they had to sell the place.

The website I found it on declares it Giant Dead Spider, a/k/a Far And Away The Ugliest Church Building In The Entire History Of Christianity From The Ascension Of Christ Into Heaven Until The Present Day.

53 posted on 07/12/2014 5:34:02 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: NYer

Humm. A manta ray with the Kremlin growing on its back....


54 posted on 07/12/2014 5:44:41 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Baynative

So, where in the Bible does it say that a church shouldn't look like a hippopotamus?

55 posted on 07/12/2014 5:46:34 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: NYer

Locutus; Mouthpiece of the Borg.

“Resistance is futile! We will assimilate you!”


56 posted on 07/12/2014 5:48:40 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ("Ait locutus!" Up and Spoke....)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I can’t identify the second one, but the first looks like a multi furnace Crematorium...disturbing!


57 posted on 07/12/2014 5:53:38 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: PJBankard

That’s what I thought, I went to the website, and that one is located in France. I wonder if the retrofitted an old German fortification?


58 posted on 07/12/2014 5:58:06 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: AnAmericanMother

It looks like something unfinished; Like an upside down table...like factories with chimneys compressed into a New York public school building....like Blake’s “grim mills” with infernal machinery in the bell tower? I guess we can tell by the Red Doors that its an Episcopal “Cathedral.”


59 posted on 07/12/2014 6:03:04 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Husker24

I looked it up as well. It is deep within France, plus the architect had a fascination with Germany bunkers from WWII.


60 posted on 07/12/2014 6:04:51 PM PDT by PJBankard (You can't fix stupid.)
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