{"id":771,"date":"2010-09-20T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2010-09-20T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:02:15","slug":"abbey-church-st-johns-university-minnesota-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/abbey-church-st-johns-university-minnesota-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Church, St. John’s University, Minnesota, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An arch holding up the bell tower (if tower is the right word) hangs over a set of concrete seats, next to the entrance to the abbey church, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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The modernist foyer and baptismal font in the Abbey Church. The statue is St. John the Baptist by Doris Caesar.<\/p>\n

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An overview of the interior, showing the altar, and behind it the futuristic throne of the abbot. The pews, angular and concrete, are extremely uncomfortable, apparently a purposeful design decision, coupled with the brutalism of the architecture and the bareness of the concrete, underscoring the ascetic quality of monastic life.<\/p>\n

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A stairway leading to the balcony shows the beautiful quality of the windows, contrasting against the bareness of the concrete, at the Abbey Church of St. John’s.<\/p>\n

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The front windows, as seen from the balcony of the Abbey Church of St. John’s. The backlit tops of the pews may be faintly seen in the dark lower section of the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An arch holding up the bell tower (if tower is the right word) hangs over a set of concrete seats, next to the entrance to the abbey church, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. The modernist foyer and baptismal font in the Abbey Church. The statue is St. John the Baptist by Doris Caesar. An overview … Continue reading “Abbey Church, St. John’s University, Minnesota, 2010”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,22,151,207,225,563,568,836,839,938,943],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-abbey","tag-abbey-church-of-st-john-the-baptist","tag-brutalism","tag-church","tag-collegeville","tag-minnesota","tag-monastic-architecture","tag-st-johns-university","tag-stained-glass","tag-united-states","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}