David Spero: Churches closed on 4 September 2011. For details of our current exhibitions, take a look at our what’s on page.
David Spero’s photographs document buildings that feature none of the usual monumental architecture of the traditional church, with its overt symbolism of status and power.
Gallery
Truth of God Church, Bermondsey 2004
© David Spero
Mount Zion Pentecostal Apostolic Church, Harehills, Leeds 2010
© David Spero
United Church of the Kingdom of God 'Help Centre', Finsbury Park 2003
© David Spero
Celestial Church of Christ and Prevailing Word Ministries, Dalston 2002
© David Spero
Deeper Life Bible Church 'To Win Build & Commission', Leeds 2010
© David Spero
Alive Chapel International 'Soar with us to the next level', Green Lanes 2003
© David Spero
Holy Pentecostal Church (Aladura) ‘With God Everything is Possible’, Peckham 2004
© David SperoTemporary, semi-permanent and often unconsecrated, these churches are where we would least expect to find them. Located in industrial estates, shopping parades, houses, cinemas, above pubs and commercial properties, they reveal a contingent architecture of buildings that were never designed to be places of worship.
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