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[–] • 6 pts

Cheap wood, shoddy construction and a leaky roof killed this building. The church died long before the building did.

[–] • 4 pts

Seeing the wood burning stove makes me think this was old enough to be built right. 100% leaky roof.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Right! You can see the Rot patterns progress from the ceiling and down into the wall on the left. Then the roof and ceiling both fail and douse the floor which rots out and the floor joists fail as well dropping the pews into the crawlspace. Finally the rafters and Ridge line beam fails to bring the entire mess down.

My opinion on location places this building somewhere in the south eastern USA. Maybe Southern Mississippi region where there is high humidity, warm weather and frequent rains.

[–] • 1 pt

Maybe southern US makes sense. I thought it was odd the stove was off to the side. The buildings like this I've seen up north by me usually the stove is in the middle of the room so it radiates the heat better. In a warmer climate perhaps that isn't as important.

[–] • 4 pts

The perfect metaphore to the decay of the US.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

OP forgot the final frame: turned into a mosque. Or maybe that was the final frame?

[–] • 3 pts

We had a small house in the country that we moved out of and left for over a decade. Same fate, just a pile of rubble with a few walls standing.

[–] • 3 pts

2015 the cross is up. 2018 cross is down leaning on the wall. 2021 cross is back on the wall. Interesting.

[–] • 3 pts

People always find hope before the bad ending happens.

[–] • 1 pt

What a waste of a perfectly useable woodstove and piano.

[–] • 1 pt

That image of the priest chopping down a sacred pagan tree in the name of a judaic religion - and now the church will become trees.

Not saying Christianity is wrong, but it should be humbling to see the power of nature and to consider that maybe we don't know the truth and maybe we shouldn't spend precious hours of our lives listening to others who claim they do.

[–] • 1 pt

That's a shitty building. The one-room schoolhouse my great-grandfather built for his kids and those of the neighboring farmers stood abandoned from the Dust Bowl until at least 1999, when I took a great photograph of it. The roof collapsed sometime after 2010 judging by satellite photos.

[–] • 1 pt

Too bad about the piano.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Yeah. When my Grandma passed away and they sold her old house no one took the piano from the living room. That was before craigslist and internet. I hope whoever bought the house kept it. Some of my first memories were playing around with it and my Grandma playing it sometimes.