Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2007

Montreal's Churches: Where Faith, Beauty, and History Meet


One of the first things any visitor to Montreal notices is the literal plethora of its grand churches, cathedrals and basilicas. In the French language, Montreal has a nick-name, la ville aux cent clochers, which translates as "the city of a hundred bell-towers." American author and raconteur, Mark Twain once remarked of Montreal, "This is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn't throw a brick without breaking a church window."

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Monday, July 2, 2007

Two Churches From Revolutionary Boston



Though sometimes confused by tourists visiting Boston, the Old North Church and the Old South Meeting House, despite their cosmetic similarities, cannot be more different. Their histories, architecture, and the roles these two churches played during the period of the American Revolution offer interesting insights to the conflict that would break out into war in 1775.

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Sunday, July 1, 2007

Two Boston Churches by H. H. Richardson



Henry Hobson Richardson is, without argument, one of the most important architects in American history, and in Boston, Massachusetts, there are two of his most historically significant churches, the Trinity Church on Copley Square and the nearby First Baptist Church.

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