Churches

Some articles on churches:

Votive Candle - Christian Use - Eastern Orthodoxy
... Usually Orthodox churches only use long, thin candles ... Orthodox churches will usually have a separate place to put candles lit for the departed Roman Catholic churches make no such distinction ...
Grane, Nordland - General Information - Churches
... Churches in Grane Parish (Sokn) Church Name Location of the Church Year Built Grane Grane Church Grane 1860 Fiplingdal Church Leiren 1915 Majavatn Church Majavatn 1946 ...
Gratangen - General Information - Churches
... Churches in Gratangen Parish (Sokn) Church Name Location of the Church Year Built Gratangen Gratangen Church Årstein 1971 ...
Ecumenical Patriarchate Of Constantinople - Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and The Ottoman Age - Ecclesiastical Buildings in Ottoman Cities
... imposed concerning the construction, the renovation, the size and the usage of the bells in churches ... Some churches were destroyed (e.g ... so that in the 19th century in Istanbul there was a veritable building boom of Orthodox churches, many among them having high bell towers and brick domes, which previously were both ...

Famous quotes containing the word churches:

    “The law of God is a law of change, and ... when the Churches set themselves against change as such, they are setting themselves against the law of God.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
    My woods the young fir balsams like a place
    Where houses all are churches and have spires.
    I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas trees.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
    —Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)