Photographs

North Canaan Congregational in Spring

 

Autumn churchTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. ― Kahlil Gibran

A quintessential New England white clapboard church.
A quintessential New England white clapboard church.

 

The sanctuary’s light-filled interior is very peaceful.

 

leaf-framed doors
The church is clearly visible from Route 44 in East Canaan. That’s in between Canaan and Norfolk.

 

handicapped access
Side door is handicapped accessible.

 

Looking up from the front steps of this Congregational Church
Looking up from the front steps of this Congregational Church.

 

The type of building commonly associated with a place reveals something important about that place: not just its history, but also its identity and ethos.
“The type of building commonly associated with a place reveals something important about that place: not just its history, but also its identity and ethos,” says Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe.

 

For New England, that association is white clapboard churches with their tall spires.
“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.”  –Samuel Taylor Coleridge