| This portfolio of images documents vernacular churches in the inner city neighborhoods of Houston and Los Angeles. The multiplicity of churches, temples, and congregations has produced a religious architecture very close to popular art, a sort of religious "Folk-Art". These improvised churches transformed from ordinary houses – with a cross nailed to the façade or an added steeple – are moving examples of the popular faith. These small simple ephemeral buildings devoted to prayer are testaments to the power of this sacred folk-art inscribed in the secular space of the city. |
UCR/CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY