I like church buildings. I never really liked going to church very much. I guess that tells you too much about me. I don’t know the name of this church I photographed on the way in from Digby Nova Scotia to Mahone Bay. I just stopped to admire it amid the autumn leaves.
The three famous churches are St. James Anglican Church, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trinity United Church. I have always been puzzled by the appearance though of 4 churches. Can’t you see 4 steeples in my photo. Why does the 4th church get no credit? It can’t be because it’s a Mennonite Church. Or could it be? I think it might be the Calvary Temple which is not quite on the shoreline. So it does not get included. Churches getting exclusive again?
I really like the area in around Mahone Bay Nova Scotia. It was first settled by Mi’kmaq people since time immemorial. Thousands of years. The French were the first Europeans to settle here and called the area La Baye de Toutes Iles (The Bay of Many Islands). The current name derives from the French mahonne, a type of barge After the British took over from the French, in 1754, they brought in German speakers from Europe to settle the region. At first they brought them to Lunenburg and then Mahone Bay.
This was the first dreary day in a while, but sadly, it was not the last.
I think churches are a little like lighthouses. Offering a warning? Or better, an illumination?