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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 ...
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
... 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 ...
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 ...

Famous quotes containing the word churches:

    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)

    People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
    Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
    The air is full of children, statues, roofs
    And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
    Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
    The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?
    Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)