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Title: St Thomas's Anglican Church, Camp Ground Road, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The church, recently rethatched, faces Camp Ground Road at Rondebosch. A transept and chancel, added to the stone building in 1903, complete the church as it stands to-day except for a vestry added later.
Identifier: islandora:17305

Title: St. Timothy's Church in Kensington, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Kensington (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Timothy's Church, Kensington, Cape Town, 1974.
Identifier: islandora:17334

Title: Church Hall in Parow, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Church Hall in Parow, Cape Town, 1966
Identifier: islandora:17330

Title: Church of Christ, Scientist, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: On Monday it will be 100 years since the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist. This church in Orange Street, Cape Town, was built in 1920.
Identifier: islandora:17295

Title: St. John's Anglican Church, Cape Town, 1964
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Church reprieved: Along with towering shops and offices, the threat of demolition has cast its shadow over this old and beautiful church situated at the corner of Long Street and Waterkant Street. But because of its strategic position in the heart of the city, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, has decided that St. John's Church is to stay.
Identifier: islandora:17293

Title: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: In 1926, not many years after the first houses were erected in South Africa's first garden city of Pinelands, the little Anglican church of St Stephen's was built. The Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone, laid the foundation stone, with General Smuts present.
Identifier: islandora:17281

Title: Church in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Cape Town Church
Identifier: islandora:17327

Title: ANC church service, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Rites and ceremonies--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Political activists attending a church service in Cape Town., circa 1990
Identifier: islandora:12617

Title: Defy Apartheid church service, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Tutu, Desmond
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu leads a 'Defy Apartheid' service with anti-apartheid UDF (United Democratic Front) leaders at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, 19 August 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5357

Title: Observatory Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The Observatory Congregational Church building cost R2,000 when it was up in 1894 in one of the green fields near the Royal Observatory. Today it is completely surrounded by houses and shops. Recently the old church hall, built in 1911, was replaced and the stage was transformed into a children's chapel, [part of which is seen above right. The oak pulpit on the immediate right was installed in 1944 and matches the pews, which come from the Caledon Square Church.]
Identifier: islandora:17289

Title: St. Stephen's Church, Cape Town, 1949
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, City planning, Urban development, Architecture
Description: Demolition threat to St. Stephen's Church, Cape Town, 1949
Identifier: islandora:17152

Title: Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Wittebome, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Situated immediately below the Wittebome station, the red-roofed, white-walled church of Corpus Christi serves a large congregation. It stands in a block with the presbytery, a school and a convent, and is one of four churches in the Wynberg parish.
Identifier: islandora:17300

Title: St. James's Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Saint James (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. James's Church, which gave its name to the suburb, faces the main road at St. James. It was built from stone quarried near by. Beyond the church is a new presbytery which is still being built of faced stone to match the walls of the church. The entrance porch was added in 1947.
Identifier: islandora:17304

Title: Church Square, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Colonialism, Horse-drawn vehicles, Roads
Description: Church Square, when stepping off the kerb wasn't likely to be fatal. No. 929 Church Square, CapeTown, by J. B. R. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17483

Title: Arderne Congregational Church, Claremont, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray - Congregational Church (Claremont) - The 'Arderne Church', as the Claremont Congregational Church is known to its members, is one with a proud record of fine work among its own people and among those of neighbouring non-European churches. Its architecture is a mixture of Elizabethan and Gothic styles combined with Greek and a Swiss steeple. Its pleasing lines are floodlit every night of the year.
Identifier: islandora:17284

Title: Former Dutch Reformed Church, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, Commerce, Architecture
Description: The former Dutch Reformed Church in Kalk Bay.
Identifier: islandora:17312

Title: Church Square, Cape Town, circa?
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Horse-drawn vehicles, Roads
Description: Church Square, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17484

Title: St Stephen's Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings
Description: St Stephen's Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town, 1966.
Identifier: islandora:17339

Title: Holy Trinity Church, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historical, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Holy Trinity (Kalk Bay) - Framed against the Kalk Bay mountains in a terraced garden dotted with pine and cypress trees stands a pretty stone and thatch church. It was built by two Englishwomen as a replica of the church they attended in England before coming to South Africa in the middle of the nineteenth century. Perched on the mountainside at Kalk Bay and looking down to the sea is Holy Trinity Church. The terraced garden in front of the church, and the Garden of Remembrance it includes, are kept in order by two of the women parishioners. Below the garden is an old graveyard which has not been used since the turn of the century. A new hall is being built at the back of the church to take place of the old one that has been demolished.
Identifier: islandora:17280

Title: Vredelust Church, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Vredelust Dutch Reformed Church in Bellville, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17331

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