A church in New England may seem dishes from others from the outside, but it is full of surprises once you go through the door.
The South SOLVILLE HOUSE in Wateville, Maine, is known by the locals as the “Maine Sistine Chapel”, Cordination of Associated Press (AP).
Within the building, the walls and roofs are covered with 70 -year -old fresh murals painted by artists in the 1950s.
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The meeting house was built in 1842 and organized church services until the 1940s, as AP reported.
In 1951, the empty building was discovered by Margaret Day Blake, a former art student.
Veronique Pelsch, art teacher at Colby College, gives a conference to art teachers about the frescoes that adorn the walls and the roof of the South Solid meetings on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Solon, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Blake contacted the students of the Skowhegan Painting and Sculpture School and called young artists to paint fresh, AP said.
The artists were tolerated to the biblical recreation scenes to “sacrifice rich and adequate images.”
Colby College in Maine has dedicated a website to the church that describes the various scenes and the 13 artists that appear in the building.
The non -agenaries Sigmund Abels in New York City and Sidney Hurwitz or Newton, Massachusetts, were two of the artists who contributed.
A fresco that represents the members of the community with a model of South Solon Meeting House is seen through a window in the lobby of the building on April 6, 2025 in Solon, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
“We left and painted and then a lunch in the cemetery behind the building. It was a very idyllic moment,” Hurwitz told AP.
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He added: “I enjoy it a lot.”
Abels, meanwhile, recalled a scene from the book of Genesis.
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Abels said he painted Jacob Wrestling’s scene with the angel.
He told AP: “It’s a very, very special place, and it was a unique experience.”
Veronique Pelsch, art teacher at Colby College, gives a conference to art teachers about the frescoes that adorn the walls and the roof of the South Solon Meeting House, April 6, 2025, in SOLON, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Véronique Pelsch, Colby art teacher, told AP that he hopes that the building inspires more appreciation for the frescoes.
“I fell in love with the place, because I have studied fresh all my life,” Pelsch said.
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The building now operates as a community meeting and performance space.
Associated Press contributed reports.
