Missionary Baptist Church, Cade's Cove, Great Smokey Mountains National Park
Dec 19, 2016 22:43:37 #
Dec 20, 2016 08:39:21 #
UXOEOD wrote:
Just love the interior.
I agree wholeheartedly ... nothing ostentatious whatsoever, which is my kind of church :) Years ago I heard a phrase in relation to something completely different (I think it may have been a math professor summing up some mathematical proof) that seems to be a perfect description of this church: "elegant in its simplicity"
Dec 20, 2016 10:21:29 #
Would love to know the story of the "brick cross". I have never seen one placed in position on floor. Beautiful simplicity for sure. Sandy
Dec 20, 2016 10:34:53 #
My earliest recollections were in a church building like that. Is the platform in the center for a stove perhaps? Ours was off to the side so didn't block the view. Love it.
Dec 20, 2016 10:42:33 #
Jan 5, 2017 12:44:07 #
As I stated in the other post, this was a Primitive Baptist church, much different from a Missionary Baptist. Well if you look at the old style frame windows, the crack around the back door, obviously no insolation in those days, and the fact the bulling is off the ground for the wind to blow under.
You would need a blast furnace to heat this Church, not just a heater. In the heater days they used ot make quite large ones, that held logs, not just little chunks of wood. This would have been needed here, and as Primitive Baptist meetings were sometimes quite long, is very likely! what they used.
By the way this Church was used up until sometime in the 50's believe it or not. I live not to far away well about 60 miles, in the Canton/Asheville area of WNC. So have done a little research on some of the old Churches in the area.
There is also an old Methodist Church in Cataloochee Valley, about this same age. Although the valley is now in the National Park system, the descendants of the old families still use the Church on occasions, like Mothers day, etc.
You would need a blast furnace to heat this Church, not just a heater. In the heater days they used ot make quite large ones, that held logs, not just little chunks of wood. This would have been needed here, and as Primitive Baptist meetings were sometimes quite long, is very likely! what they used.
By the way this Church was used up until sometime in the 50's believe it or not. I live not to far away well about 60 miles, in the Canton/Asheville area of WNC. So have done a little research on some of the old Churches in the area.
There is also an old Methodist Church in Cataloochee Valley, about this same age. Although the valley is now in the National Park system, the descendants of the old families still use the Church on occasions, like Mothers day, etc.
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