old-ass-mall-photos:

“the rock” church exterior entrance, lenoir mall, lenoir, nc, photograph taken circa 2011

there is that particular type of american protestant which looks approvingly upon the idea of a church located at a mall (however as you can see this photo is of the exterior-to-the-mall entrance) and with a mysterious name like “the rock” which does not announce its being a church to the casual observer indeed the only indication that this location was a church is the crossed t in the sign you can imagine that this church had a very modern style of ministry and there was a youth group that played exciting games the remarkable thing about this photograph is how the mysteries of religion and the mysteries of the mall are not at all incompatible and indeed one feels strongly the sense of the sacred in a well-designed mall and one is inclined to think on the mysteries of the divine in such a place but the efforts made to actually incorporate a designated explicit place of worship into a mall seem to have always fallen so short of their potentials