Abandoned Church, New Mexico, July 2021, Interior Views

Abandoned Church Exterior, Front and East Side, New Mexico

After photographing the exterior of this old, abandoned church at the outskirts of a small New Mexico town, I ventured through the open doorway (there was no door) to check out the interior.

Abandoned Church, Interior Graffiti, Just inside the doorway

I had noted much graffiti just looking through the doorway and windows.  Judging by the dates and graffiti messages, it looks like this place is popular with teenagers, presumably local ones, since this is a long way from any other towns or cities.

Abandoned Church, Interior and Graffiti

Shooting handheld in the dim light inside the church required high ISO to get sufficiently high shutter speeds to avoid fuzzy images.  Shooting through windows from inside resulted in blowing out the exterior portions of the images.

Abandoned Church, Interior and Graffiti, Pulpit

I’ve brought out some of the exterior details in the editing process in the image above just to avoid having a white blur in the windows.  The exterior details through the windows are very low quality as a result.  If I had not been shooting handheld, I could have acquired images to create HDR images.

Abandoned Church, Interior Graffiti
Abandoned Church, Interior, Floor

The floor boards were still sound, so maybe the missing boards are a result of someone looking for hidden treasure.

Abandoned Church, Interior, Ceiling

The ceiling bead board had a nice patina and mostly appeared to be in good condition.  The covers to the ceiling light fixtures were all missing, presumably broken or maybe stolen.  There were remnants of broken light bulbs in the fixtures.

Abandoned Church, Interior, Ceiling
Abandoned Church, Interior, Ceiling

There were no window panes so a breeze through the windows made the hanging light fixtures sway.  I had to increase the ISO even more to freeze the motion of these.

Abandoned Church, Interior, Ceiling
Abandoned Church, Interior, Ceiling
Abandoned Church, Interior, Ceiling

Obviously some electrical item had been removed from the central portion of the ceiling.  I’m guessing a ceiling fan had been here and has been stolen, if not removed legally, since those early day fans might be valuable antiques.

This wraps up my photography here.

Until next time,

Ken