Photographs, and who made them.

• Trinity Church, Boston, looking up into the tower.

  Trinity Church, Boston, looking up into the tower. Henry Hobson Richardson’s church, with decoration by John La Farge, opened in 1877.

  Photograph by Daderot. License: CC0 1.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• The chancel of Trinity Church, Boston.

  The chancel of Trinity Church, Boston. A nave draws the worshipper toward the pulpit and the table.

  Photograph by Daderot. License: CC0 1.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Height inside Trinity Church, Boston.

  Height inside Trinity Church, Boston. The room itself lifts the eye.

  Photograph by Daderot. License: CC0 1.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Park Street Church, Tremont Street, Boston, at the edge of the Common.

  Park Street Church, Tremont Street, Boston, at the edge of the Common. The steeple has stood over the city since 1810.

  Photograph by Daderot. License: CC0 1.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Old South Church, Boston, in the russet stone of its porch and tower, on Boylston Street in Copley Square.

  Old South Church, Boston, in the russet stone of its porch and tower, on Boylston Street in Copley Square.

  Photograph by Daderot. License: CC0 1.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Trinity Church still stands in Copley Square, beside a glass tower.

  Trinity Church still stands in Copley Square, beside a glass tower. The photograph is here because it makes a plain point: a sacred building holds its ground in the commercial city, or it does not. This church is not for sale on this site.

  Photograph by Gregg Squeglia. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Grace Church, Broadway, New York, designed by James Renwick Jr.

  Grace Church, Broadway, New York, designed by James Renwick Jr. and built in 1846–47. A city-center church at the scale of the street.

  Photograph by Bmzuckerman. License: CC BY 4.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Fourth Presbyterian Church, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, designed by Ralph Adams Cram and Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1912–1914.

  Fourth Presbyterian Church, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, designed by Ralph Adams Cram and Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1912–1914.

  Photograph by w_lemay. License: CC BY-SA 2.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Cathedral Basilica of St.

  Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, designed by Barnett, Haynes and Barnett. An interior of this craft is not a thing a congregation can now decide to build.

  Photograph by w_lemay. License: CC BY-SA 2.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Trinity Church and its churchyard at the head of Wall Street, New York.

  Trinity Church and its churchyard at the head of Wall Street, New York. Stone held in the middle of the market.

  Photograph by Ferfive. License: CC BY 4.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• The apse of Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago.

  The apse of Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago. A room arranged for worship, not for another use.

  Photograph by Farragutful. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, Sixth Avenue.

  First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, Sixth Avenue. A Presbyterian church in the heart of a city — the kind of room this work is for.

  Photograph by Daderot. License: Public domain. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

• Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Second Street.

  Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Second Street. An eighteenth-century church still sitting in the plan of the city.

  Photograph by Al R. License: CC BY-SA 2.0. License deed. File on Wikimedia Commons.

Public-domain and CC0 photographs are used without a legal duty to credit; the photographers are named anyway. Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike photographs are credited with author, license, and a link to the source, as those licenses require. No photograph was taken from a source that forbids commercial use.