North Philadelphia

The latter building fell just a few weeks ago, on March 6. The contractors have cleaned up the debris, but the chain-link fencing is still there.

At the start of my senior year this past August, I finally relocated to a neighborhood in North Philadelphia more commensurate with all the stereotypes I’d heard about the area before I enrolled here. Ugly.

Soaring brick-and-mortar tributes to God can be found in any community. Churches especially permeate places that test faith and offer little hope, places like North Philadelphia. The imagery inside, however, shows that the God these