For the past eight years, as an urban explorer and photographer, I have been documenting an abandoned church in Ontario, Canada.
Discovering the church in 2012, I have captured through photos and video how rain and snow have slowly decayed the church over the years.
In the summer of 2012, I was riding my motorcycle down a remote road on a Native reservation when I saw the abandoned church. I pulled over and decided to look around, gaining access to the church through an open window.
The church had a painting of "The Last Supper," a green curtain, and a bronze cross still hanging on the wall behind the altar. A pair of glasses, perhaps worn by the preacher, had been left on the altar. The pews were perfectly lined up, waiting for patrons who would never return.
What happens a lot when you find an abandoned building, it's normally very quickly discovered by scrappers and graffiti artists and people who are basically up to no good or looking to steal things, but this one has eluded that fate.
One of the reasons the church may have remained untouched is because of its remote location, the reservation doesn't have many visitors, and the road the church is on isn't well traveled.
In parts of the church, the floor had collapsed in on itself, holes in the floor caused by people falling through the weakened wood planks. There were signs that other people had visited the church in the previous three years. The chairs and the bible had moved positions, but still, no one had ransacked the place.
It's interesting to strictly document what Mother Nature does in damaging the structure when you don't have the added destruction of vandals.
As of 2020, some of the pews and the grand piano have collapsed through the floorboards. The floor has also started to crack in front of the altar. Overhead, the sections of the roof have completely eroded away, as has the heating pipe above the altar.
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8 Years of Natural Decay in an Abandoned Church
