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Church Architecture A photo album of Lens4aneEye at ClickaSnap.com by Robert Carlson   I am not a particularly religious person. That doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the structures old and new, in use of abandoned, in good shape or dilapidated. Every building once held services and help mold the faith and emotions of its congregation.    Church in Braddock, PA Men have built towering cathedrals to their gods and built humble houses of worship with    whatever resources and labor they could muster.  Men come and men go. The Earth abides. This paraphrase is derived of Ecclesiastes. Church buildings come and go, too,and the faith abides.   My collection of church imagery combines the love of a place with the memories of the people who prayed, sang, laughed and cried. They wed, baptized and said their final goodbyes inside these halls and chapels.    Mountain Top in Costa Rica A building is after all only a structure of wood, glass. Steel and masonry until the people endow it w