Favorite Places is a weekly feature in which I show you some of the places we’ve seen on our travels around North America.
I think we all admire the beautiful and historic cathedrals around the world. I also like to find the village churches. There is something about them, maybe just the fact that they are still being used. Here are three I want to share. The first two are in the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. This one is in the little fishing village of Ninilichik. It’s on a hill overlooking the sea.
There is still remnants of the Russian presence in Alaska, especially in their Russian Orthadox churches. Here’s another one in the little town of Kenai. The architecture is similar and I wish I knew more about it. Little picket fences around the churches seems to be a tradition.
The next church is in the little village of Bodega, California. It’s about two miles from the beautiful Bodega Bay. Does it look familiar?
If you are an Alfred Hitchcock movie fan, you’ll know this one as the “Psycho Church”. The little village of Bodega is very small. Besides the church, there are less than ten business buildings and about that many homes. But on the weekends it is street fair time. You will find outdoor sales of art and various crafts and, of course, food. Lots of motorcycles are also parked along the streets. Services are still held on Sunday morning in the church. Occasionally tourists like us pull up and take pictures of this classic building.
I hope you’ll join me next Sunday for more Favorite Places. If you’d like to join in, post one of your Favorite Places on your website and come back and leave a comment with a link. Feel free to take the button.
These are lovely! I used to take pictures of churches all around too. My favorite place to do that was in Milwaukee, because you could invariably get a picture of a giant beer sign in the background!
I LOVE churches! When we were in NYC for five months I think I walked into every one I could find -and I made an effort to find them all- and at least took photos of the ones I couldn’t. Then we went to Italy last year and I couldn’t keep track of all the churches we encountered. There is something beautiful and majestic and peaceful about them.
Thanks for sharing these lovely village churches.
I love the church in Kenai! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for sharing these with us–they’re unique and so pretty!
I love churches too! These little churches look so clean and so different from the little parish churches I know.
And I’ve been meaning to comment on your series of posts on your favourite places for a while now – I love seeing all the places you’ve visited.
I like to peek into churches to see what they look like inside – some are very ornate and others very plain – I never can tell which I’m going to find on the inside! But every time I go to take a picture outside it seems there is always some telephone wire in the way! Beautiful photos. I don’t remember a church in Psycho – I remember one in The Birds and also in Vertigo.
I LOVE these photos!! In fact, you’ve given me an idea for my Wordless Wednesday this week. There’s a lonely church near here I’ve been meaning to photograph. Hummmm.
Little churches just seem so much more….More religious? I dont know they just seem to me that they are more about God and less about big money. All those big mega churches seem to be about money to me.
Not said to offend anyone just how I love the little churches.