#, my response last night seems to have been lost in the ether.

You have a point about Mayan Temples, and we can add Kivas in the Southwest, ritualistic ball courts, the large burial mounds of the Mississippian nations, and totem poles honoring mythic ancestors of the Northwest Coast, to name only a few. But you must recall that when Columbus landed the first time in North America that he concluded the natives must be heathens because there were no church spires in view amongst their buildings. ;-) I didn't draw a line between all of the possibilities because the discussion was Western style churches, and in particular, something only slightly older than the Victorian churchyard as mentioned in a post above.