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While on a visit to Kansas City, I stopped by the small town of Liberty, and found this wonderful old church.   The Church, built in 1905, replacing an earlier structure, is quite beautiful and has an interesting story.

I came the next day, Sunday morning, and Rev. Culver was kind enough to let me go into the sancturary and shoot the stained glass windows from the inside.





Interesting take on Medieval Rose windows traditionally found behind the altar.







Detail from "He is Risen:"


The large stained glass windows were supposedly meant for a church in Minneapolis, but they got as far as Liberty, and the church was unable or unwilling to pay the shipment for them, so a local church bought them, and designed a building around them.

Just a beautiful church, and a very nice church family.   

Small stained glass window from Liberty Christian Church

I really like stained glass windows.  They don't do too many now up here.

Doing real stained glass is a very demanding and time-consuming art, which takes years to do a window that size.   It's just economically not feasible to do windows on this scale any more.

The Catholic Church at Martin Tennessee was lucky enough to have a parishioner who did stained glass, and they have a wonderful window donated by this man.   They could never have paid him, even at minimum wage, for the hours he put into it.

In Liberty, I also found a very old Presbyterian Church, which was built in close imitation of an old Scottish church.   I'll post some shots from that one, tomorrow.

With dial up pictures are very slow to come in.  So while I wait I usually do other work on the puter.  I know that slows things down, but it feels like less of a waste of time.  I say all that to say this.  When the pictures were finally displayed on my screen My response was   "OH WOW!!"

Thay are amazing.