Prayer Places

I'm a great admirer of the work of Tom Hunter whose beautiful photographs I first met through his Living in Hell series.  Re-discovering him this week I've found his Prayer Places works - in the light of current conversations about the nature of church such as my previous posting, I think these are worth contemplating in the light of Magdalene Keaney's commentary:

[Tom Hunter's photographs] also make me think about what a church is. How do they exist outside ritual, once a congregation, the community that defines and activates them, have left? Or perhaps they are not empty after all.