Holy Week

Actually, this church is too beautiful to crop and present in this way, but I liked this so much, I decided to do it anyway.  It is Basilica Shrine of St. Mary in Wilmington, NC.  We were there for lunch with my sister and stopped to take this photo before heading over the traffic filled bridge to come home 1 hour south.  I found the following on the internet.  "A basilica was originally a Roman building featuring certain architectural elements that supported its use as a public, open facility for business, trading, etc. These typically —but not always— included colonnades, naves, and aisles, not unlike a modern pedestrian mall."