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"Church building" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this activity was church building; but there were other causes than religion for the general magnificence of the effort. Among these was communal pride, the interesting, half-forgotten motive of much that is great in ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose
... "town" had long since disappeared except as a name, but its functions were in 1600 still carried out by two political bodies which much resembled it: the first was the parish,—an organization of persons responsible as tax-payers for the maintenance of the church building. In some places an assembly of these tax-payers met periodically, chose officers, and voted money for the church edifice, the poor, roads, and like local purposes. In other places a "select vestry," or corporation of persons filling its own vacancies, exercised the powers of parish government. ...
— Formation of the Union • Albert Bushnell Hart
... with its inscribed eulogy formerly marked the spot where Dr. Muir was buried under the pulpit. It was removed to the burying ground to the lot beside the tombs of his wife and children after the restoration of the church building following the fire of 1835. A mural tablet under the gallery on the north wall now bears eloquent ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore |
Words linked to "Church building" : kirk, presbytery, chancel, basilica, place of worship, duomo, church service, nave, bema, cathedral, abbey, house of prayer, church tower, amen corner, transept, vestry, side chapel, lady chapel, apsis, sacristy, narthex, rood screen, sanctuary, apse, church, house of God, house of worship |
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