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Title: Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Green Point, Cape Town, 1970
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historical buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
Description: The Jarvis Street Baptist Church, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, will soon be moved away to the Cape Flats.
Identifier: islandora:17309

Title: Former New Apostolic Church, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, Commerce, Architecture
Description: A night club and takeaways have replaced a New Apostolic church.
Identifier: islandora:17310

Title: Pinelands Methodist Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray - Methodist Church (Pinelands) - The modern-styled Methodist Church at Pinelands is guarded by two pine trees and fronted by a garden and a crazy-paved path. Wide teak doors, surmounted by high wooden caves, lead from Union Avenue into the porch of the church, which superseded the old church next door in 1952. The church buildings include a hall, opened in 1940, and a manse.
Identifier: islandora:17278

Title: Greek Orthodox Church, Woodstock, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The Greek Orthodox Church in Mountain Road Woodstock, was built in 1901 by a congregation of less than 80 people. To-day there are about 1, 100 people in the congregation.
Identifier: islandora:17307

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Three Anchor Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The foundation stone of the Dutch Reformed Church at Three Anchor Bay was laid in 1878, and two years later the church was opened for worship. The handrails on the steps, a memorial to Dr. Fred Murray, were placed there by his family.
Identifier: islandora:17303

Title: St. Peter's Church celebrates 100 years, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Religion, Church buildings, Centennial celebrations, etc., ,
Description: St. Peter's church, Mowbray which celebrated its centenary yesterday. The rector, the Rev. John Carter, can be seen standing at the church gates.
Identifier: islandora:15440

Title: Parow East Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Almost futuristic in design, the Parow East Dutch Reformed Church in Tygerberg Road was built three years ago. The unusual tower rests on a triangular base and dwindles to a pinpoint at the top. The front wall is symbolically curved to welcome the congregation on Sundays. Steel, stone and metal have been combined into a harmonious, spacious place of worship.
Identifier: islandora:17297

Title: Rondebosch Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Congregational Church (Rondebosch) - In the porch of a pretty stone-and-brick church at Rondebosch, where Devil's Peak dominates the skyline, is the stone which once lay on the grave of Dr. Johannes van der Kemp - one of the pioneer missionaries who brought Congregationalism to South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:17276

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: Old Slave Tree, Church Square, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Slaves, Colonialism, Historical monuments, Architecture
Description: You've read the column: now see the picture. It's that long-vanished Church Square landmark, the old slave tree.
Identifier: islandora:17482

Title: Church Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Roads
Description: Looking up Church Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17507

Title: St. Stephen's Church, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: Architectural heritage: wooden casement windows in the historic St. Stephen's Church on Riebeeck Square are being replaced as part of a restoration project sponsored by the Vernacular Architecture Society. The church was built in 1800 as the first theatre in South Africa and helped relieve the garrison's boredom during the first British occupation. It became part of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in 1857. Restoration workers, from left, Mr Kennet Plaatjies, Mr Sedick Slemming and Mr Shaheed Hendricks help conservation architect Mrs Pat Riley of the National Monuments Council size up a replacement window.
Identifier: islandora:17273

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: Central Methodist Mission Church, Cape Town, 1994
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Architecture, Christianity, Historic buildings
Description: Museum site: the Central Methodist Mission Church in Buitenkant Street. [Exhibition will show signs of the times.]
Identifier: islandora:17323

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: Catholic church of St. Joseph, Cape Town.
Subject: Kommetjie (Western Cape, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: On the hillside at Kommetjie a small church with a bell tower. This is the Catholic church of St Joseph, built by a devoted wife in honour of her husband. Guiseppe Rubbi came to South Africa from Italy at the turn of the century as a humble carpenter but struggled on to become one of the foremost builders in Cape Town. The Old Mutual building in Darling Street, which in its day was considered outstanding, was built by him. He owned one of the first four holiday homes in Kommetjie and loved to walk in the mountains behind. He expressed the wish that he could be buried there as the view was reminiscent of his birthplace, Marostica. When he died in 1946, Mrs Rubbi bought the piece of land where he used to sit and admire the view and had a tomb and ventilated vault erected there. She persuaded Bishop O'Reilly to allow her to build a chapel in memory of her husband. In 1948 Mr Garnelli, the nephew who had inherited the family business, built this chapel. No expense was spared. On the ceiling are three paintings in the style of an Italian church, with different marbles imported from the Alps and Vicenza for the altar and the floor. Around the walls are tablets depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross, and a mosaic of the Holy Mother and Child. When the church was completed, Mrs Rubbi arranged for a Salesian father to conduct a service there once a month, except at holiday times, when a priest came each Sunday. With foresight the Catholic Church had brought two adjoining plots and in 1968 when Ocean View township was established, a monastery was built behind the church. From then on, regular services were held in the church. Father Smeets looks after the new church at Ocean View and the local congregation from the kommetjie and Sun Valley areas.
Identifier: islandora:17274

Title: Church entrance, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Christianity, Religion, Church buildings, Historic sites
Description: Outside Robben Island's more-than-a-century-old church, Mrs C.S. Haugerud, an islander since 1946, said: "I will be sorry to go. It's clean and open - no traffic noises and petrol fumes. I started the Sunday school on the island. I don't know who will take over from me." Mrs Haugerud is in charge of catering in the wardroom of S.A.S Robben Eiland, the training establishment.
Identifier: islandora:16523

Title: St. Saviour's Anglican Church, Claremont, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Saviour's Church, Claremont, stands on five acres of lawns and trees. The original church, which was consecrated in 1850, was made of rough mountain stone and had a thatched roof. Since then six bays, a new chancel, a lady chapel and vestry accommodation have been added.
Identifier: islandora:17298

Title: St Paul's Anglican Church, Signal Hill, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Paul's was consecrated in 1880 and serves a large Anglican community living in the city and on the slopes of Signal Hill. Built in traditional English style, it has seating for 900 people and on high festivals there is standing room only.
Identifier: islandora:17282

Title: Church interior, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), circa 1945, Historic sites, Church buildings, Interior architecture, Leprosy
Description: The little church on Robben Island where once the lepers worshipped has been desecrated by sea birds.
Identifier: islandora:16529

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