Love, Faith, and Power, at Deliverance Temple Church. I've often caught a glimpse of this church as I peer down a side street near where a friend lives. So yesterday I decided to go have a look at it more closely. I am charmed by the gothic windows and the detail around them in this architectural mix of renaissance revival, gothic, and southwestern elements. And it's hard to see it in my photo, but there is a red cross on the sidewalk leading up to the door.
While on my way there, I noticed a building being torn down right next to one of my favorite signs in Durham. Thinking they may tear it down next, I snapped a photo, so here's a bonus for today. It's not a church per se, but it has a scripture on it! And the reason I love it so much is because it is such an odd mixture of text, color and shape, which someone must have really been passionate about at one time. I'm not sure what it looked like when it was first built, but it looks like it started out one way, then many letters fell off, then it was all painted whitish and red, and then someone went back and painted all the letters that had fallen off in blue, adding the extra touch of elongating the plus sign to make it look more like a cross. I don't know why, I just like it.
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