Sunday is church day and Greensboro has many architecturally interesting houses of worship. St. Paul the Apostle, located at the corner of Horsepen Creek and New Garden Roads, dedicated the above sanctuary in 1993. With a roof line that looks like a skateboard ramp, this church is easy to identify. If you attend St. Paul, please share an interesting story or uplifting thought about your parish.
I grew up in this parish until moving to Raleigh in 1998, and still attend services there with my parents if I'm in town on a Sunday. The outside is unconventional but the inside is quite dramatic (as you noted in your later post) with the massive exposed beams and skylights along the roof's peak. During a tour of the church given while it was still under construction, we were told that the roof beams symbolize praying hands raised to heaven--a nice piece of imagery that has stayed with me through the years.
The church was completed with plain glass windows for financial reasons; the lower windows were replaced with stained glass in, I believe, 1994 or '95 and the upper "rose" windows slightly later.
Posted by: Chris M. | Friday, October 01, 2010 at 01:12 PM