Twelve years ago, I saw some beautiful doors in a cemetery and I wanted to share them on iDigHardware. I didn’t know if it was appropriate to post photos of doors leading to tombs, so I contacted the cemetery administration and was assured that it was fine to share the photos with my readers. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon the Mexican equivalent in San Miguel de Allende, so here’s a quick break from codes.
Each building has many small rooms, and there are at least 6 or 8 buildings, with more under construction:
The doors serving each room are of varying widths:
Each door has beautiful hand-carved figures:
What a beautiful final resting place where family members can come to celebrate Día de Muertos and other special days.
Have you seen any beautiful doors lately? Send me some photos using the photo submission page (the “Submit Photos” link is on the Tools menu).
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Beautiful!
Wow. Beautiful work.
Love the beautiful rustic and artistic hardware too, very fitting, even the padlock.
Architecture at human scale, textural and tactile.
Thank you for sharing the photos.
Amazing Lori!
Living in the Los Angeles area, we do have some cool architecture but no where near what we should have.
Mostly cheaply built buildings with a sad attempt at giving them a modern twist. Old school work like this is timeless. Thanks for the great pics!
It makes me crazy when I see new buildings designed to look old, but I love the colonial architecture here. And of course I always appreciate good craftsmanship.
– Lori
Very nice. Some thought and artistic work went into these.
Hello Fred! I miss hearing from you!
– Lori