“Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.” Patrick Overton
In the late 1700’s, community life revolved around town meetinghouses. They were built at the taxpayers expense by early English settlers, who had come to America, to seek religious freedoms from the Church of England and had landed on the East coast of the United States. Building colonial meetinghouses at the center of towns was a way of fulfilling the need for a place of congregation for religious worship and to provide a place for town administrators to conduct business. Many of these modest buildings, built when our country was new territory, still stand today.
There is a book that just won the prestigious New England Book Festival Award for Best Photography/Art Book for 2010. The book, “A Space for Faith” by large format photographer Paul Wainwright, is a study of images of these historical meetinghouses that grace communities throughout the New England States.
“A Space for Faith” is an excellent resource of images and historical background on early architecture in the United States. For architects in America, the design of these buildings, at the heart of communities in New England, hold great interest. They are some of the earliest buildings our country has.
For more information on this beautifully executed, architecturally important, photographic, art book, please visit http://bit.ly/iebtgF. Thank you to photographer Paul Wainwright for recording these images, through the lens of his camera, of some of the historically most note-worthy buildings in our country. It is a book that will be of interest to all faiths.
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