The unusual story of the "Unfinished Church" in Bermuda (5 photos)

Bermuda has a landmark under titled "The Unfinished Church". The name is to be taken literally. Despite the ruins, looking like a monument of the Middle Ages, the construction began in 1847 - but in the end it never ended.





"The Unfinished Church" in St. George, Bermuda

The funny thing is that this church in the city of St. George started to build instead of a really old church of St. Peter - a little outdated, and even destroyed as a result of a storm. There building suffered so badly that it was not possible to restore it at that time too time-consuming - it's easier to build a new one.

But the new one, as you understand, the locals did not built. There were several reasons - from a banal lack of money to strange confusion, as a result of which St. Peter's Church decided still restore.



St. Peter's Church in St. George, Bermuda

As a result, funds "from one pocket" had to be divided into two parts and the construction was delayed. To understand how much, you need to know the next - finally the end of the construction had to be put in 1926 year.

True, it is believed that the construction was stopped back in 1899, but, apparently, some hopes still remained.

But then the unfinished temple was overtaken by the fate of the "elder brother", i.e. St. Peter's Church. In other words, as a result of the next storm, what was ready could be restored.





But inside the "Unfinished Church" there is a lot of free space

As a result, the local community decided not to spray anymore, completed the restoration of the old church and for many decades about that the failed attempt was not remembered.

The ruins exposed to the sun, wind and rain, steel and really look like something ancient, got the appropriate charm and in at some point attracted attention as a "historical value".

As a result, everything around the ruins was cleared, ennobled and The Unfinished Church has become a real local "cultural center".



Free space in The Unfinished Church figured out how to use

In the sense that tourists began to be brought here, and even local the residents decided that parties are great in the entourage of the ancient walls, weddings are celebrated and even church services are held.

As a result, there are now two churches in the city of St. George - at least alone and in this form, but among tourists it is even more popular, than "real". And there could not have been a single one, because from complete demolition of the old temple at one time (that is, in the middle of the 19th century) residents removed only the fear.



The Unfinished Church as a place for romantic dinners

And this is also quite an interesting fact. It turns out that the residents St. George was afraid that due to the destruction of the cemetery, which located next to St. Peter's Church, diseases will begin in the city and sea In general, the pestilence was avoided, and the church was preserved, and even received now a "fashionable location".