Come Sunday

Description:

In 1990 Thomas Roma began a series of photographs of houses of worship in Brooklyn, once called the "City of Churches." The project was decisively changed when the pastor of a black Christian congregation invited Roma instead to photograph the Sunday service itself. Over the next three years Roma made pictures of more than one hundred and fifty services in fifty-two black Christian churches in Brooklyn - a year of Sundays. Come Sunday presents a generous selection of those pictures. An essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., introduces the photographs by exploring the many dimensions of "The Church" in African American life, history, and culture.

subjects: Exhibitions,  African Americans,  Religion,  African American churches,  Artistic Photography,  Pictorial works,  Photography, artistic,  African americans, new york (state),  Brooklyn (new york, n.y.),  African americans, religion,  Church buildings, united states,  City churches

People: Thomas Roma

Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  New York,  New York (State)