EditorialPhotographs of André Leon Talley in the pews at a memorial to the former Vogue editor, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on Friday, April 29, 2022. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialPhotographs of André Leon Talley in the pews at a memorial to the former Vogue editor, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on Friday, April 29, 2022. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialSometimes, when he was still both a janitor and a photographer, Rocha worked such long days that he slept on a synagogue pew.? (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
EditorialSome pews are blocked off to allow for social distancing during a Spanish evening mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan on Aug. 19, 2021. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialPews are blocked off at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, where services are now conducted outside, in East Los Angeles, Feb. 27, 2021. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
EditorialThe pews where Moses Jones, who died of the coronavirus in April 2020, used to sit at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, in Chicago, on Feb. 14, 2021. (Lyndon French/The New York Times)
EditorialA nun sanitizes pews between Sunday services at St. Agatha Roman Catholic Church in New York, Oct. 24, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman disinfects a pew after mass at St. Monica Catholic Church in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times)
EditorialA man kneels amidst pews, some taped off to assist social distancing, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in the Bronx, which was open only for private prayer, May 24, 2020. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)