Just outside Eureka Springs in the Arkansas Ozarks--itself a divine place--lies this small, peaceful, non-denominational chapel. Even as I feel the distance between the organized religion I was raised with and myself grow, places like this remind me of why the underlying faith meant and continues to mean so much to me. Designed by E. Fay Jones in 1979, completed in July 1980.›
Thorncrown Chapel

Fay Jones

Exterior · Carroll County, United States · 1980

Photo: Clinton Steeds · 2006-07-05 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 1879×2885

Just outside Eureka Springs in the Arkansas Ozarks--itself a divine place--lies this small, peaceful, non-denominational chapel. Even as I feel the distance between the organized religion I was raised with and myself grow, places like this remind me of why the underlying faith meant and continues to mean so much to me. Designed by E. Fay Jones in 1979, completed in July 1980.

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