A year after releasing a coffee table book featuring stained glass windows, Alabama photographer David Graves has released a second book — Alabama Hope, which highlights the architectural beauty of churches in the state.
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Seventeen Alabama Baptist churches are featured among the 60 photographed spaces:
- Forest Lake Baptist in Tuscaloosa
- First Baptist Troy
- Linden Baptist
- Calvary Baptist in Butler
- Frankville Baptist
- First Baptist Grant
- Oyster Bay Baptist in Gulf Shores
- Mount Sterling Baptist in Butler
- First Baptist Greenville
- First Baptist Jackson
- First Baptist Jasper
- First Baptist Leeds
- First Baptist Auburn
- First Baptist Dothan
- Lakeview Baptist in Oxford
- Dauphin Way Baptist in Mobile
- The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham
The book also showcases stained glass in the music building of the University of Mobile.
Sacred spaces
“With Alabama Hope, my goal is to remind readers that hope is still offered to each individual and encourage each of us to share our own faith story,” said Graves, a member of The Church at Brook Hills. “These sacred spaces — whether modest or grand — hold generations of prayers, songs and stories that continue to shape our state and its people.”
He said the colors, the light and the presence of community that you can feel in these church buildings “remind us that hope is not just history — it is alive and offered to us today.”
Alabama Hope is available on Amazon.
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