As we circled around to the rear of the church, I could see that its windows had been boarded and its main doors padlocked shut. The statues of saints that had once filled niches in the outer walls had been defaced by having their heads knocked off, and the bell tower had collapsed. Garbage lay in heaps in what had once been a surrounding garden. But even so, the building was an impressive one, with plenty of columns, domes, and arches. I could imagine its glory in former decades.