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Domnus of Stridon

He was born in Stridon in Pannonia where a church is still dedicated to his memory and he was a contemporary of Saint Jerome.

Szczepanów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

In the thirteenth century Vincent of Kielcza, described this building as a wooden structure but by 1470 Jan Dlugosz described a stone church.


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Albert S. Nicholson

This new church building was first occupied for services in March 1873, with Reverend John D. McCarty returning from retirement back East to provide the first sermon in the church.

Arriach

Therefore the Four Evangelists parish church, erected in 1903, is the largest Protestant church building in mainly Catholic Carinthia.

Briarwood Presbyterian Church

The first General assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America was held in Briarwood church building in December 4, 1973.

Cedar Street Presbyterian Church

The Reformed Church of Tappan, in Tappan, Rockland County, New York was founded in 1694, and the current church building dates from 1835.

Charlton Wallace House

With the construction of the new church building on an adjacent lot in 1851, the parish priest moved into the house, and it was also used as the parish school in its earliest years.

Churches in Sycamore Historic District

The church building was designed by Chicago architect George O. Garnsey.

Corbeil Cathedral

The facilities were however inadequate for the needs of an episcopal administration, and the new town of Évry was chosen as a better-situated new episcopal centre, although entirely lacking in any suitable church building.

Cradock, Eastern Cape

Interestingly, the design of the Dutch Reformed Church building is based on that of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

Cyrillus Johansson

During the 1950s, he was mainly engaged in church building (e.g., the church in Björneborg) and restoration.

Diocese of Tasmania

St John the Baptist's West Hobart and Holy Trinity, North Hobart were sold, with the sale of the historic Holy Trinity church being particularly controversial and leading to protests (particularly as the church building, supposedly condemned as unsafe, was then used by the Greek Orthodox Church).

Dominion-Chalmers United Church

The Bank Street Presbyterian Church building was reconstructed by the architect William Hodgson in 1881 after a fire.

Dumbarton Collegiate Church

St Mary's met these needs in a hospital attached to the main church building, and a separate leper house located at a "safe" distance from the town centre.

Dun Church

The white, wooden church building was constructed in 1949 and it was consecrated on 24 July 1949 by the Bishop Arne Fjellbu.

Ettal Abbey

The foundation legend is that Ludwig's horse genuflected three times on the site of the original church building, where a statuette of the Virgin Mary ("Frau Stifterin" or the "Ettal Madonna") of the Pisano School now stands, a gift from Ludwig to his new foundation.

Farnham Church

It was built in 1737, and is a one-story, cruciform shaped brick Colonial era church building.

First United Lutheran Church

On May 25, 1890, a new church building was dedicated on Geary Boulevard between Octavia Street and Gough Street (now the site of St. Mary's Cathedral).

Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

A number of auxiliary chapels were dedicated to the Forty, and there are several instances when an entire temple (church building) is dedicated to them: for example Xiropotamou Monastery on Mount Athos and the 13th-century Holy Forty Martyrs Church, in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

Hamilton University

The presence of a small church built in the parking lot had served to make the activity tax free due to federal and state laws, even though the church building had no pews; people in Evanston had never seen services there.

John Walker Hundley

In 1890, he was called to Tarboro, North Carolina, where he led the effort to construct a new church building there.

Kapelle der Versöhnung

With the division of Berlin in 1945, the church building found itself within the Soviet sector of the divided city of Berlin, with most of the parishioners in the neighbouring French sector.

Kingston, Purbeck

In 1833 John Scott, the first Earl of Eldon, (later Lord Chancellor Eldon) replaced the chapel, at his own expense, with the present church building standing on the site.

Llewellyn Gwynne

In 1929 he dedicated the first church building at Atbarah Railway Station.

Maximianus of Ravenna

To a modern art historian Meyer Shapiro, "Maximian was "a poor deacon of Pola who to a high position through his political adroitness" as a protegé of Justinian II. He had not been wanted as archbishop by the people of Ravenna, but "by shrewd maneuvres he overcame their opposition, and won their respect by his discretion, generosity, and great enterprises of church building and decoration".

Mendocino Presbyterian Church

The Mendocino Presbyterian Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Presbyterian church building located at 44831 Main Street, in Mendocino, California.

Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence

It passed very close to the intersection of US 60 and Route 59 about 3 miles west of Granby, destroying a church building and numerous homes/buildings as it passed through.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Wayne County, Michigan

Truman Handy Newberry and his brother John donated nearly $300,000 to the congregation for a new church building, as a memorial to their parents John and Helen.

Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien

A series of murals, on the right side of the church building, was painted by Raymond Virac, Lucien Simon, and Robert-Albert Génicot; these celebrate the evangelical work done in Indochina and India by Francis Xavier and that done in Japan by Alphonsus Navarette.

Octagonal churches in Norway

In the Netherlands the reformed church in Willemstad, North Brabant, Koepelkerk (Domed Church) (1607), the first Protestant church building in the Netherlands, was given an octagonal shape according to Calvinism's focus on the sermon.

Sacred Heart Church, Keamari

The present church building was built in 1922 with funds provided by the Karachi Port Trust.

Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur

They built houses and installed a metallic church building (The Santa Barbara parish) which is argued to have been designed by Gustave Eiffel.

Solomons United Methodist Church

Solomons United Methodist Church is an historic United Methodist church building located at 14454 Solomon's Island Road, South, in Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland.

South Unitarian Church

The South Unitarian Church is an historic church building at 888 Main Street in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts.

St Mary's, Barkly West

R.W. Murray, accepting office as secretary, advocated the erection of a church building and in February 1871 the British High Commissioner Sir Henry Barkly, during his visit, laid the foundation stone.

St Paul's and St George's Church

The York Place tram stop (opening in 2014) is near to the church building.

St. Andreas, Hildesheim

The earliest church building on the Treibeinsel dedicated to the Apostle Andreas (Andrew) was a simple pre-Romanesque chapel, which already existed at the death of Bishop Bernward in 1022.

St. George's Church, Riga

The church building now houses the Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and is situated at the address 10/12 Skārņu Street.

St. Nicholas' Church, Berlin

On Reformation Day in 1938 (October 31) the church building served its congregation for the last time.

Tabor Church

The church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter Outer Luisenstadt or colloquially SO 36.

Tampa Covenant Church

Tampa Covenant Church is a church building in Lake Magdalene, Florida designed by Alberto Alfonso.

Tetsworth

The Oxford diocesan architect, G.E. Street reported that parts of the old church building were "of very considerable merit, and in good preservation", the chancel was "very perfect" and it would be "very inadvisable" to allow their demolition.

Whittier Friends Meeting House

Whittier Friends Meeting House (also known as Springville Friends Meeting House; Quaker Corners) is a historic church building at the junction of County Roads E34 and X20 in Whittier, Iowa.