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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: 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

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 memorial, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Church buildings, Death and remembrance
Description: Robben Island church - memorial. Plaque unveiled. A couple are pictured inspecting the memorial dedicated to those who died in World War 2, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16532

Title: Restoration at Lutheran Church, Strand Street, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Restoration
Description: Workmen are repairing and restoring the historic Lutheran Church in Strand Street, the country's oldest building and one of a number of fine examples of 18th Century architecture in Strand Street. The copper spire, dominated by an orb and crown on the weathervane, is being painted to preserve it from the effects of sea air and pollution. The Rev Charles Ellefson, minister of the church, said it was last painted and repaired in 1970 when storm winds blew off the corrugated iron roof.
Identifier: islandora:17275

Title: Church in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Church with a mural, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17328

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: Wynberg Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: Founded in 1829, the historical Wynberg Dutch Reformed Church has been the subject of drastic and unusual restoration measures, carried out by Gordon Verhoef and Krause, the well known Cape Town decorating company. The 700 mm thick walls were pushed aside by the roof structure and to remedy this craftsmen cut grooves 25 mm x 30 mm deep in two sets, 300 mm apart, on the inner and outer walls at eaves level. These grooves accommodated 12 mm thick high tensile steel cables anchored in steel plates at the end of the walls. The cables were then stressed hydraulically, secured and cut off flush with the face of the plates. They were then mortar caulked and faced up so that after re-decoration inside and outside one is unable to detect the building is now collared with steel. The history of the church goes back to the time when members of the Dutch Reformed Church living in Constantia and Simonstown, etc., found the distance to Cape Town becoming irksome. After some discussion as to whether a new church should be built in Mowbray or in Wynberg, Wynberg was chosen and application was made to the Government for a grant of land. In August 1831 the foundation stone was laid by Sir John Truter, father and founder of the congregation. Born in the Cape, he studied law and was for many years in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1809 he became fiscal and then, in 1812, Chief Justice. In 1820 he was knighted by King George IV, the first Afrikaner to be honoured. The church was finished in 18 months and dedicated in September 1832, but by 1843 the congregation had grown in size and two new wings were added. This enlarged church was in use until 1889 when the congregation had outgrown it again, and a new church was built on the site of the old one. The new church is substantially the same as the old one except for the spire which replaced an ornate lantern. Inside, the arched roof is supported by four grey granite pillars which were a gift from Cecil John Rhodes when the church was rebuilt. All that is left of the original structure is a little side building with a small bell arch which still summons the congregation to morning and evening services.
Identifier: islandora:17272

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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