Soul Sanctuary

Photographer Captures 'Soulfulness' of Black Churches

RNS' Adelle M. Banks interviews photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson, whose book "Soul Sanctuary" is filled with images he photographed of African-American congregational life. The full article is lionked above.

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He especially relished his time at Jake's Chapel, a small church in Greenville with about 100 in attendance.

"I hit the mother lode," he said. "Jake's Chapel is the prototype of the old school, whooping-style preaching and the ecstatic congregants and rousing guitars and drums. They had it all."