adobe church
Clay brick sanctuary
A church built from adobe—sun-dried bricks made of clay, water, and straw.
Adobe churches are characteristic of the American Southwest and Latin America, where Spanish missionaries constructed them beginning in the 16th century.
Their thick earthen walls, rounded edges, and simple bell towers create a distinctive architectural style: The old adobe church had stood in the plaza for three hundred years.
- missionPurpose-driven task
- mission bellsPendant-flowered native bulbs
- puebloCommunal adobe village
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- stuccoDecorative wall plaster
sanctuary · New Mexico · Spanish colonial · courtyard · altar · holy water · prayer candles · saints · wooden beams · tin roof · dirt floor · desert · cross · plaza · whitewashed · thick walls · arched doorway · candles
- earthen structurescob, rammed earth, mudbrick, earthen wall, earthwork
- church architecturealtar, altars, nave, naves, aisle
- missionsmissionary work, foreign missions, mission trips, mission work, mission stations
adobe churchGothic cathedral
Medieval European sacred architecture
St. Peter's Basilica · Notre-Dame · Westminster Abbey · Cologne Cathedral
adobe churchsynagogue
Jewish house of worship
mosque · Hindu temple · Buddhist temple · Shinto shrine · pagoda
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