Church buildings

Exterior view showing parts of an unidentified village with what appears to be a tower or perhaps a church structure in the background. Location is not given. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." Although not identified, this photograph appears to have been taken during that trip. This view may have been taken in Russia.

Photograph of the top of an unidentified church or mosque in an unidentified North African city, possibly Oran, Algeria.

Photograph of the El Jedid Mosque in Martyrs Square in Oran, Algeria. The mosque was built in 1660. The statue in front of the building is unidentified.

Photograph of the El Jedid Mosque in Martyrs Square in Oran, Algeria, with crowds gathered around the statue outside.

Photograph of the Cathedral de Sacre Coeur, built by the French in Oran, Algeria in 1913. Crowds of men and women are gathered around a statue outside the building.

An unidentified United States Army soldier poses on the steps of the Cathedral de Sacre Coeur in Oran, Algeria.

Former President Harry S. Truman (third from left) with a group of Jewish men in a synagogue. Possibly Ben Weinberg fourth from left. The rest are unidentified. Mr. Truman has attended a Jewish breakfast. From: Mo-Bee Photo Service.

Photograph of an unidentified member of the United States Army on the steps of the Cathedral de Sacre Coeur in Oran, North Africa.

A group of unidentified WACs in a Jeep pose with a contingent of unidentified Arab children in front of the Church of Notre Dame d'Afrique, the Basilica of Algiers, Algeria, North Africa.

Six unidentified WACs are photographed on the steps of Notre Dame d'Afrique. The church was built in 1872 in Algiers, North Africa. The inscription under the statue reads: "Re Surgens non Moritur" translates to "The church of Africa that is rising will not die."