Three Pictures of Trinity

[mbarrick]

The south churchyard. The grave with the statue belongs to John Watts Jr., the last Royal Recorder of the colony of New York. Born Aug. 27, 1749. Died Sept. 3, 1836. Seems he adjusted alright to the revolution, he was a member of Congress fron 1793 to 1796.

The north churchyard. For more details of the graves go here.

The spire. When it was built this spire stood well above the skyline of Manhattan. It was, in fact, the tallest building in North America at the time. I posted more about the history of this chuch in a previous post.

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[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Bearing in mind also that your temple is not a temple, but rather the fuel for a bonfire ritual. In itself it has no history, no lasting sense of place, and a continued existence only as photographs, video, and memory. It's impressive for what it is, but it is so very much not the same thing. Comparing these two is like comparing a sculpture to performance.

Mediavictim's post, reformatted

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I'm going to delete mediavictim's original post because the size of the picture is stretching the comments page all out of shape.

Below is a copy of the original post, with height and width tags added to the image:

and here is almost the same shot in almost the same type of place. A large temple.. a place to honor the dead...

Although when my tmeple burned down .. people went from Sad to Happy whereas if your place burned down - I think they may get a little upset.