Christians: Does your church have stained-glass windows or murals? If so, what colors are the people depicted?
Question by Samian’s Fifteenth Account: Christians: Does your church have stained-glass windows or murals? If so, what colors are the people depicted?
This is a mini-survey I’m doing 
The next time you go to church, look at all the figures visually depicted, and tell me whether they’re all white. If not, tell me which other color(s) the Biblical figures are depicted as )
Inspired by this famous Spanish song:
Best answer:
Answer by Susanna
we have one stained glass window at the front of our church, there are no figures depicted, just a pretty onsombo of colors I have done a 4 wall mural for the childrens bible class room, mainly animals and an ocean scape, God’s beautiful creations:-) it is an ongoing project cuz I like to surprise the chiildren and see if they notice the new additions:-) my latest was a mother flamingo and baby…need to do more, perhaps after the holidaze???God Bless
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At my church we have what I guess you would call murals, but they’re more like big pictures in the wall that can be changed out according to the season.
The people in them are white.
They’re not paper white, but they’re like white people white.
If that makes sense (:
I hope that helps with your survey (:
I am Eastern Orthodox.
We bought our church building from Baptists. The stained glass figure of Jesus knocking at the door is light brown/Mediterranean skinned. Our icons depict people of every race and color, from Moses the Black (aka St. Moses the Ethiopian) to Peter the Aleut (Eskimo) to the Chinese Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion.
Most Danish churches are medieval and therefore have medieval murals. At this time no one would have seen a coloured person in real so I think it would have been difficult to imagine. I just checked my pictures of medieval murals and mostly they are more like non-couloured as in face and hair isn’t filled in with any colour but just line drawings and then only the clothes has colours.
In the late Middle Ages they become more “international” and then it becomes popular to depict the youngest og the three magis as black as well as other biblical figures like the Queen of Sheeba as black. But then again it changes in the 17th century.
I had a teacher who ones told me that in late medieval Europe black people were always depicted as kings and queens, but then when the slave trade begun they suddently began to be portrayed as lower class like servants and similar. I think he could be right.
So you could perhaps say that in the early medieval period, they didn’t know how to portray non-white people (or they had probably never heard of people being different colours so they depicted what they knew), then they had a period of awareness of other people in the world and started portraying the view of black people at that time which was pretty much limited to great kings and the like and finally Europe became racist?
In one church I attended when I was a child we got a stained-glass piece of art despicting Jesus in prayer. His skin was brown, light brown.
Almost every window in my church is stainglass. They are all depictions of saints;most our white, but there are also 2-3 black saints pictured.
There are also two murals: one is of the banishment of Adam and Eve from Paradise (both of them have darkly tanned skin) and the other..I actually don’t know what it is of lol
Blessings
well if you go into any church on acid they could be all of those colors in the rainbow