A long forgotten church and cemetery just north of the Cypress Hills in Alberta. The old church collapsed some years back but I like to stop for a look every now and then. Still looks good...especially in springtime.
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The ultimate wabi-sabi building.
ReplyDeleteThis church is currently in a state of transition.
DeleteI hate to see churches abandoned, let alone collapse, but such things happen.
ReplyDeleteAll of the old churches in the area are gone now, except for Saint Margaret's.
DeleteHard to tell it was ever a church. A lovely setting though.
ReplyDeleteIn its first life it was a log home. Then it was moved to the current site, an addition built and it opened as a church.
DeleteI think there is something natural and appropriate about buildings that slowly and eventually collapse. Nothing lasts forever but it sure beats being torn down or burned. I didn't know we had any congregationalist churches left as they merged with Methodists and others to form the United Church of Canada.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking personally...I like watching is disintegrate in a most beautiful way.
DeleteThere are a few other Congregational cemeteries not too far away...all of them are abandoned.
David Carter sent me the following email:
ReplyDelete"Bob Brown and I cleared the cemetery over 15 years ago - and my youngest daughter Maureen helped. The cemetery marker was once the granite base of a POW headstone in Hillside Cemetery - Michael Anctil of Medicine Hat Monumental did the engraving and placed the stone - via donations in jam jar at back of St Margaret's."
That same granite base was used to place several other cemetery markers in the area.
Michael, I helped David Carter and Bob Brown with quite a few cemeteries in the area, including this one. It was the late 90s when we did it. They reused the former POW headstone bases as the new cemetery markers. A labour of love as I have some relatives buried in these cemeteries.
DeleteMany of the cemeteries in the area are mostly forgotten so any help is appreciated. We need more people like you.
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