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Gorgeous, Martin. :)
I happened to take a few of the churches this afternoon. :haha: St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (centre); Wesley Methodist Church (left): https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1574/...8b26deb0_b.jpgMarch 25, 2016 by R C, on Flickr Same, reversed: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/...9c522974_b.jpgSt. Patrick's Church by R C, on Flickr Cochrane Street United Church: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1586/...0250b754_b.jpgMarch 25, 2016 by R C, on Flickr The Chapel (red roof, off-centre): https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1625/...f554543e_b.jpgMarch 25, 2016 by R C, on Flickr The Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist (top); The Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (centre): https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1654/...0ed07d53_b.jpgMarch 25, 2016 by R C, on Flickr Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3952/...3f8b1374_b.jpgInterior Anglican Cathedral St John's NFLD by millersphoto, on Flickr http://i64.tinypic.com/102w2ef.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/162031y.jpg Just the Basilica: http://i64.tinypic.com/rvxekw.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8427/...679324eb_b.jpgInterior of Basilica Cathedral of St. John The Baptist (St. John's, Newfoundland. 2012) by Gustavo Thomas, on Flickr My family. :) http://i67.tinypic.com/2v3stqw.jpg Gower Street United Church (left); The Chapel (centre), Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (right): https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1710/...d17ca155_b.jpgMarch 25, 2016 by R C, on Flickr Gower Street United: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3866/...f17a610a_b.jpgGower Street United Church by Destro Tull, on Flickr |
What an unbelievable collection in Montreal.
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Lets not forget the biggest of them all
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^An insane building. The height of a 40 storey residential tower. The interior, which wasn't finished until the 60's has this funky modernist / art deco feel.
That church really ought to be a lanmark known across the country, our CN tower, but instead it is hidden on the northern slope of the hill, on the blue line where non-locals seldom venture. |
I'll never forget accidentally discovering it several year ago. My wife and I were driving around one evening in Westmount, lost but enjoying being lost, when we pulled up to this spot:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.49118...7i13312!8i6656 Not knowing where we were, it seemed like some kind of lookout, so we got out to have a look. We turned the corner and still didn't know what it was we'd encountered, but a door was open, so we went in. And while that was quite something, it was only when we went out the front doors that we understood the magnitude of what we'd stumbled across. Serendipity. I've always sworn by it. |
What would qualify as "my" local church (a stone's throw from our Lévis duplex) is this one, definitely nothing too special for the Quebec City area considering there are 1600s churches out there.
It's the St-Joseph church. This current building is from 1830. Interesting historical tidbit, the previous version of the St-Joseph church on the same site is where Gen. Wolfe's body was stored in 1759 before it could be brought back to England for burial. The English were based on the south shore for the battle and the St-Joseph church was some kind of field hospital/HQ for them. http://miliciensdemontcalm.allmyblog...102_120838.jpg http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv....3.JPG?id=14493 |
There isn't going to be a whole lot of competition with Montreal in this department.
It would be possible to do a fairly big series for Halifax too. There are a lot of landmark churches. The best-known ones in the city are St. Paul's, because of its age (1750, oldest Anglican church in Canada), and St. Mary's Basilica, because they're prominently located. St. George's is just as significant, but less well-known. It's on Brunswick Street in the North End. Construction started in 1800, when Prince Edward was stationed in Halifax. He was involved in the construction of a number of "round" buildings in the city, like the town clock and the Prince of Wales (Martello) tower. The Martello tower design was used throughout North America in the early 1800's. http://lutheransynodseminary.com/yah...4914_large.jpg Source http://www.fineart.utoronto.ca/canar...jpgs/70-06.jpg Source |
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Just off the top of my head, here are at least three "prominent" downtown ones that he's missed: St. James', Notre-Dame, Christ Church. http://image-photos.linternaute.com/...48-1567655.jpg http://images.freeimages.com/images/...eal-quebec.jpg http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/27516...stchurch3a.jpg |
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Back when I was a kid in the 70s one of the local urban development stories was how the construction of the nearby Rockhill apartment towers might have violated a bylaw that prohibited obscuring the Oratory, and there was a call to have them demolished. Never happened, of course. As a Catholic kid who was having misgivings about organized religion the Oratory gave me the creeps. I haven't been inside it since childhood but I remember a wall of crutches that were no longer needed, a testament to the miracles of brother Andre. |
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It's those smaller, more intimate proceedings in the Protestant tradition that give me the willies... |
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As for those smaller congregations... both my nephew and niece have married into them. I found myself longing for the larger, more anonymous venues. |
None of these can match legends already posted.
Baptized here - now the Loyola Chapel http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3075658.jpg First communion here - St Ignatius of Loyola http://grandquebec.com/upl-files/st_ignatius_loyola.JPG Married here - St. Germain d'Outremont http://diocesemontreal.org/tl_files/...in20141657.jpg |
Already one of my favourite threads. Fantastic!!!
Eat you heart out, Spliff. |
I got married here.
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At some point the 20s, when Montreal already had a trillion churches, somebody went "lets build a trillion more!". And they did.
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Apparently it started out as a Catholic Church for the college boys, and staff, but morphed into a parish church as the surrounding Catholic population grew and became wealthy enough to build its own church in the 60s. I attended a Unitarian wedding there in the mid -late 90s. |
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How things have changed, reversed. And now some of them are condos. Didn't that start in the 80s? |
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I though church condos were a more recent thing. |
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