Boston Avenue Church - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Boston Avenue Church - Tulsa Oklahoma - 24 June 2009. Completed in 1929, it blends traditional church design and modern "skyscraper" techniques. To my eye it looks like something one would see in Minas Tirith. I half expected Gandalf to come striding out the door. Canon 5D w/ 200mm F:4.0 Super Takumar, 105mm F:2.8 Super Takumar, 24-60mm Sigma DG, and 17mm F:3.5 Tamron SP.

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Then there were the three guys. . . Large statues on the side of the building. They had beams coming out of their hair – so I gotta’ figure these are pretty heavy hitters – God, The Son, and the Holy Ghost: The ultimate Power Trio - Masters of matter, space, and time – manifesting as human beings in flowing garments (I’ve no problem with that part as a social convention). What intrigued me was – they were all three on horseback. . . Now – what do the three most powerful entities in the universe need with horses? Transportation? They can manifest anywhere in the universe - at any time – in any form . . . Why climb on the back of some big smelly animal and ride it around? It made me wonder. . .

Then I learned they are the equestrian Circuit Riders, the early Methodists engaged in spreading the Good Word. Two of the three riders represent historic individuals, Bishop Francis Asbury, the first American Methodist bishop and Bishop William McKendrie, while the third figure, the one in the center, is symbolic of all the other men of God who did His bidding from horseback.

This building cap, from a distance looked like it would appear natural with shafts of lighting or slithering clouds of burning plasma coming out.