Downtown Presbyterian Church Blog

While visiting this church, built in the year 1851, I found the way of building it very original. I have never been inside of a church that looks this ancient, which is very wierd since I am from Nashville, Tennessee and have never been in this church. Referring back to the Horowitz reading, everything in here was built with a roundness to occupy space and show depth, and that is the one thing that I noticed this church continued to do. Even the lines that were on the walls, ceilings, and columns were very geometric, not having much of an end to them. There were also columns painted on the wall behind the pertruding colums to give the illusion that there was more space being occupied behind the front columns. This is called having a foreground and a background, which was played on very well in this particular section of the church. The columns in the front of the church represent volume and show that there is a flow of infinite space. The use of color creates a darker look to the church. The colors used, though, do represent the life of the Ancient Egyptians, the color red represents egyptian life, the color green represents the papyrus they used in many ways, and the tan/yellow color represents their egyptian land. I found that very interesting because we don't have main colors to represent our lifetime, we just have the color scheme that stands for nothing. It just stands for the colors that we learn as children. I also found it very interesting that everything seems to be enlarged, especially the columns, which would represent that worthiness of the Gods they worshiped. It is as if these things were built for the use of the Gods, letting the Gods know that they were an important aspect of the Ancient Egyptian life. I liked this trip to the church, wasn't what I expected at all, but I enjoyed it!