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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"church building"”.
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A tectonics approach to architecture : a new church building for Buffalo
… The challenge here is that the Christian Church comes into being wherever the people gather, so, the architectural task is to make an architecture that will heighten the congregation' s experience without the architecture coming to seem itself as the "carrier" of the tenets of belief. A …
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The Cape Town church building boom 1880-1909: An Historical and Architectural Review
… of two interrelated parts: a long essay on the building boom, and a catalogue of the churches produced by the boom, or significantly enlarged during the boom. The purpose of the study is two-fold: to provide an analysis of the historical background to the boom and of the architecture of the …
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Bishop Thomas Lewis O’Beirne and his church-building programme in the diocese of Meath 1798-1823
… and ecclesiastical union from Britain. If the Church of Ireland was ever to make a success of its mission in-Ireland, it was in these early years of the nineteenth century. On the eve of this opportunity Thomas Lewis O’Beime, an Irish convert and former Roman Catholic seminarian, was translated …
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Scripture as Architecture
A church performs many functions. It presents an image; prepares the believer for worship; introduces the unbeliever to God; facilitates worship services; projects the words of the pastor; resonates the music of the choir and orchestra; deepens knowledge and understanding of the faith; instructs …
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The Absence Of The Wellington Dutch Reformed Mission Church On Erf 794: A Symbol Of Tangible And Intangible Heritage, Destroyed And Found
… absence of the Wellington Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) on Erf 794 in Wellington is a heritage-lacuna. It answers the question by setting out, firstly, how the tangible heritage of the DRMC was embodied in the physical church-building (the process of building and the resulting structure); …
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'A Machinery for the moral elevation of a town population': Church Extension in Glasgow, 1800-1843
This thesis considers the various church building schemes that took place in Glasgow during the early nineteenth century, focussing upon one particular model – that of church extension – to examine the way in which the Established Church of Scotland negotiated a space materially and culturally …
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The churches of Bishop Robert Gray & Mrs Sophia Gray : an historical and architectural review
… 1848 to establish a province of the Established Church, the Church of England in the Cape Colony, adjacent territories and the island of St Helena. Gray's fourfold objective was to increase the number of clergy, to build churches and schools, to establish missions among the 'heathen' and to found …
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Greenwich parish church, memorialisation and community c. 1700 to the present day
… examines the relationships between the parish church(es) of Greenwich, London, and the local communities they served in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It incorporates architectural, local and national history sources and combines these fields. An exploration of three …
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The renovation of a church: a design that enables the First Baptist Church to extend its ministry to the Gainsboro community of Roanoke, Virginia
… in urban renewal. The members of First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia made the decision to utilize their existing structure after their new church facilities have been built. They believe that their building is an established landmark in the community, and that a reuse of this building …
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Development plan and business outline for historical redevelopment in the City of Cambridge
… potential of a historically landmarked church building in Cambridge, MA. The building is in a rapidly developing area in constant need of new housing. The proposal is bound by the constraints mandated by the building's historical designation, a ground lease payment to its owner, and a …
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Application of the Asset Mapping Model to Church Based HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria
… HIV/AIDS activities were more frequent among churches with needs and assets for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Aba, Nigeria and whether this connection was mediated by collective efficacy. A cross-sectional design was used to obtain data in two phases. First, a three-step forum focus group …
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A Christian Center for Hartford, Connecticut
… have led the Ministry of' the Central Baptist Church to feel a great need for a Christian Center in connection with the church building to supplement the present neighborhood facilities in an attempt to create a better environment tor the inhabitants of the neighborhood. An investigation of …
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Philosophies of Pipe Organ Preservation: Case Studies of Three Churches In Columbia, South Carolina
… philosophies employed by three historic churches in Columbia, South Carolina in relation to their pipe organs. Existing scholarship on historic pipe organs focuses on their technical conservation as well as their significance to the history of music and organbuilding. These three case …
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Gathering Between Walls: A Catholic Church in 12 Mile, Kentucky
The following is a design for a new Catholic church for the Sts. Peter and Paul parish in rural 12 Mile, Kentucky. The existing church building is set into a hillside, mostly underground. It was originally intended to be the basement but had to be used as the church once funding ran low during …
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"Advancing the material interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom" : the Erskine Presbyterian Church, Montreal, 1894
… takes Montreal's 1894 Erskine Presbyterian Church, by Montreal architect Alexander Cowper Hutchison (1838-1922), as a specific example of the building of an Akron-auditorium combination plan church. Although relatively rare in Montreal, this American church type was perhaps the most popular …
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Sacred Threshold: An Examination of the Threshold in a Catholic Church for Hispanic Immigrants
… arrival at the Promised Land. In the Christian Church, this journey continues in the lives of believers. The spiritual journey begins with salvation, continues with a repeated process of suffering and redemption, and terminates with an awakening to a better understanding of God.<p> The spiritual …
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Convert! : the adaptive reuse of churches
This thesis examines the phenomenon of vacated churches and analyzes the major issues underlying their adaptive reuse in order to help promulgate an awareness of the range of successful strategies and solutions that are available to stakeholders who are interested in seeing a former church building …
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The Missiology of I. T. Tichenor with Implications on Contemporary Southern Baptist North American Missions
… the use of demographics, cooperation, church planting, church planting missionaries, indigenous leadership, the church building, and use of resources are presented. Chapter 5 gives implications on contemporary Southern Baptist North American missions. After giving the condition of …
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Altar und Liturgieraum im römisch-katholischen Kirchenbau : eine bauhistorische Betrachtung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Veränderung des Standorts des Altars nach dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil (1962 - 1965)
… in the middle of the room. However, the infant church did not consider the table as a liturgical device, but only as a dining table. Every table could be used for the Holy Communion and every room as a liturgy room. With the merging of the liturgy of the word with the liturgy of the Eucharist …
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An archaeology of Scotland's early Romananesque churches: the towers of Alba
This thesis is a study of the earliest masonry church towers in Alba, the historic core of the kingdom of Scots. The towers at Abernethy, Brechin, Dunblane, Muthill and Markinch have been briefly considered in architectural histories with dating construction as their principal concern. I maintain …
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