Church buildings

Exterior view of what is believed to be the Smolenskaya Church located within the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius Monastery in the town of Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) just northeast of Moscow, Russia. 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 photo is not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip. Thayer mentions visit in his December 5, 1955 diary entry.

Exterior view of what is believed to be the Dormition Cathedral also called Assumption Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church located within the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius Monastery in the town of Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) just northeast of Moscow, Russia. 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 photo is not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip.

Exterior view of what is believed to be the Dormition Cathedral also called Assumption Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church located within the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius Monastery in the town of Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) just northeast of Moscow, Russia. 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 photo is not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip.

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.