Legacy of Worship: Sacred Places in Rural Saskatchewan
- Author Name: Margaret Hryniuk and Frank Korvemaker
- Award Year: 2015
- Publisher: Coteau Books
- Tags: Nominee 2015, Shortlist: Non-fiction Award, Shortlist: Regina Book Award
About the Book
This highly-anticipated companion volume to the best-selling Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings combines brilliant colour images of the buildings people worship in with the fascinating stories of those places and people. Legacy of Worship profiles over 60 rural churches, representing 15 spiritual denominations.
The writer/photographer team that brought you the award-winning Legacy of Stone has scoured the province for sacred places that illustrate the finest of Saskatchewan’s art and design. Rural religious gathering places often display the work of folk artists and craftspeople, as well as that of professional artists and architects; they are the last repository of primitive art and such crafts as weaving, metal-smithing, needlework and furniture making.
This book presents sacred places that illustrate how beauty in any form inspires and nurtures the soul. They demonstrate the universal, eternal need for art and beauty, and the importance of valuing and protecting the religious heritage so important to our identity and our proud place in Canada.
About the Author
Historian Margaret Hryniuk has been writing about heritage buildings since 1978. She is the co-author of "A Tower of Attraction”: An Illustrated History of Government House, Regina, Saskatchewan and Regina: A City of Beautiful Houses.
Frank Korvemaker has worked in heritage conservation for 40 years, as an archaeologist, historian, and archivist.
Larry Easton is an award-winning photographer, and editor for the Regina Photo Club, whose work has been featured inPrairies North and numerous other publications.