Here's a Papua New Guinean evening church service in the Wagi language area. Churches are usually built with very low walls and huge, wide open windows, as you can see here. There are two very useful things about this style: one is that it allows lots of air to flow through. In the lowlands of PNG (where Wagi is) it is very hot almost all of the time, and in a crowded space everyone wants as much air as they can get! The other benefit is that if the church fills up, people can just stand outside along the walls, lean in the windows and worship along with everyone else! Who needs a building expansion when the walls don't keep people out?
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