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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: 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: 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: 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

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 Square, Cape Town, circa 1870
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Civil services, Church buildings
Description: Church Square has been much in the news lately with the closing down of the Civil Service Club (second and third building from the left) and its amalgamation with the City Club in Queen Victoria Street in 1976. This picture was taken in 1870, and shows the Gothic facade of the Rev. Dr. John Phillip's church (which later became incorporated in the Civil Service Club) and the pedimented building which began to house members of the club in 1865. Great changes have been made to both buildings since that year and even bigger ones can be expected in the years to come. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17481

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: Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, City planning, Urban development, Architecture
Description: Drawing of the interior of the Groote Kerk, Church Square, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17156

Title: Dutch Reformed Church that became a factory, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1913, Religion, Industry
Description: Roggebaai D.R. Church The Dutch reformed church in which / The original House of Samual Griffiths and co. / Griffiths had its first factory.
Identifier: islandora:16022

Title: Church Street, Cape Town, circa 1950s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development
Description: Church Street, Cape Town, circa 1950s.
Identifier: islandora:17383

Title: Rev. Karl August inside his 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: The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Identifier: islandora:17988

Title: Sea Point MP in church at District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: MP for Sea Point, and his wife, Joyce, were among the hundreds at a religious service and public meeting at the Holy Cross Church in - Street last night to commemorate the 'death' of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17995

Title: Moravian Church, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Churches, Fires, Fire departments
Description: Veld fire: the historical Moravian Church in District Six looms in the background as a fireman battles flames fanned by a strong south-easter that caused the blaze to race towards the building last night.
Identifier: islandora:14954

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