Here you see Brooklin’s iconic Beth Eden Chapel in Friday morning’s sunshine. This one-room church and meeting place was completed in 1900 and dedicated as “a house for the worship of God favoring no one denomination.”
It’s not used much now, but it was once the center of a small community of hard-working people. They went there to offer prayers; celebrate christenings and weddings; join in rousing hymn-sings; weep at funerals, and discuss important matters.
Named in 2001 to the National Register of Historic Places, the Chapel is listed as an example of late Victorian architecture with interesting wood siding composed of wave-cut shingles and clapboard.
There are mature maple trees on both sides and, sometimes, you can see the shadows of the trees on the Chapel’s south side while looking through the windows at the maples on the north side:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on March 10, 2023.)