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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: Wale Street Baptist Church, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Another landmark to go: the Baptist Church in Wale Street which will be closing next Sunday and moving to new premises in Orange Street, where services will be conducted for the first time on March 14. The Wale Street building will taken over by a property firm and demolished.
Identifier: islandora:17291

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, Saxophonists--South Africa,
Description: Saxophonist playing at a church service attended by political activists, Cape Town., circa 1990
Identifier: islandora:12619

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Vredelust, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Typical of the modern architectural styles at Vredelust are [from left] the Dutch Reformed church [a timber-gabled home and a glass-walled lounge].
Identifier: islandora:17294

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:12618

Title: St. Thomas Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1920, Church buildings, Architecture
Description: St Thomas Church, Rondebosch. The church as it is today, seen from almost the same angle. Though the photograph was taken in 1920, there have been no structural changes since then.
Identifier: islandora:16623

Title: Bell for St. Martin's Lutheran Church, Cape Town, circa 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church bells, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Weighing more than one ton, this church bell, cast in Germany, will be hung in the German Lutheran Church (St. Martin's), Long Street. Discussing ways of getting the bell into the tower are (from left) Mr P. E. Ulm, Mr W. Nossek, Mr K. H. Naumann, pastor at the church, and Mr C. A. Angermann, representative in Cape Town of the bell manufacturers.
Identifier: islandora:17277

Title: Church and political leaders march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Religion, United Democratic Front (South Africa)
Description: Church and political leaders were pictures of elegance. "Terror" Lekota of the United Democratic Front (UDF), left, Winnie Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Popo Molefe and Mohammed Valli-Moosa, both of the UDF, lead the march.
Identifier: islandora:17804

Title: Baptist Church at Meadowridge, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Meadowridge (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Baptist Church at Meadowridge, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17337

Title: Crossroads Council of Churches Chairman, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Clergy
Description: Bishop Sydney Myilikazi - chairman of Crossroads Council of Churches.
Identifier: islandora:17595

Title: Holy Trinity Church of the Church of England, Cape Town, 1967
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The site on which the first Roman Catholic church in South Africa was built, and on which one of the oldest Anglican churches in the country now stands, will be sold at public auction next month. Holy Trinity Church of the Church of England in South Africa was completed in 1846 in Harrington Street, in what is now District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17299

Title: Church of Christ, Scientist, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Churches of the Peninsula: Church of Christ Scientist in Orange Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17333

Title: Catholic church, Belgravia, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Religious leaders--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Catholics--South Africa,
Description: Father P.J. Pearson leads a congregation outside the Catholic church in Belgravia, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12648

Title: Dutch Reformed Church Centre, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, Historical, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Dutch Reformed Church Centre in Orange Street, Cape Town, which will be officially opened on October 21.
Identifier: islandora:17315

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Three Anchor Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: N.G Kerk, Three Anchor Bay - The Dutch Reformed Church at the Three Anchor Bay has an impressive tower and entrance porch and a bell tower near the gate.
Identifier: islandora:17306

Title: The Church of the Good Shepherd, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1980
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Good Shepherd Church is a hundred years old this year.
Identifier: islandora:17314

Title: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17336

Title: Moravian Church in District Six , Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mother Church ... This neo-classical 1886 basilica in District Six, with its bell tower and pedimented portica resting on three Dorian pillars, is the mother church of the Moravian Bretheren in the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:17993

Title: Dutch Reformed Sending Kerk (Mission Church), Long Street, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Church buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Suid-Afrikaanse Sending Gestig (D.R. Sendingkerk); Dutch Reformed Church in Long Street, Cape Town, 1966
Identifier: islandora:17332

Title: Church of the Visitation, Constantia, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The Northern facade of the Church of the Visitation, showing Julian Elliott's controversial design.
Identifier: islandora:17316

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