On a quiet street corner in a small Louisiana town, a large piece of Nova Scotia dominates the landscape.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a church. For the first 200 years of its existence, it was the All Saints Anglican Church of Granville Centre in the Annapolis Valley. Now it\u2019s Louisiana Church in Abita Springs.<\/p>\n
The move, and the resurrection of the church, started with the vision of one man: Reverend Jerel Keene.<\/p>\n
“As soon as I saw it and saw the ‘1814’ on the cornerstone and the area that it came from, which was Nova Scotia … I made a connection immediately,” Keene said last week on the doorstep of his church.<\/p>\n
Keene envisioned moving the building intact to Louisiana, a grand gesture which he said would have attracted a lot of attention to both the building and his ministry.<\/p>\n