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St. Peter's Church (Sitka, Alaska)
St. Peter's Church may refer to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City or: Africa * St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia, Liberia, scene of the Monrovia Church massacre Americas Canada * St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Ottawa, Ontario * Cathedral of St. Peter-in-Chains, Roman Catholic church in Peterborough, Ontario * St. Peter's Church, Toronto, Roman Catholic church in Ontario United States Connecticut * St. Peter Church (Bridgeport, Connecticut), Roman Catholic church * Church of St. Peter (Danbury, Connecticut), Roman Catholic church * St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Milford, Connecticut) Illinois * St. Peter's in the Loop, Roman Catholic church in Chicago * Cathedral of Saint Peter (Rockford, Illinois), Roman Catholic church * St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Sycamore, Illinois) Iowa * St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ceres, Iowa * St. Peter's Catholic Church (Council Bluffs, Iowa) * St. Peter Church (Keokuk, Iowa), Roman Catholic church Maryland * St. Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monrovia Church Massacre
The Monrovia Church massacre, also referred to as the St. Peter's Lutheran Church massacre, was the worst single atrocity of the First Liberian Civil War. Approximately 600 people were killed at the church in the Sinkor district of Monrovia on 29 July 1990. The massacre was carried out by approximately 30 Armed Forces of Liberia, government soldiers loyal to President Samuel Doe. The perpetrators were of Doe's Krahn people, Krahn tribe while most of the victims were from the Gio people, Gio and Mano people, Mano tribes, which were in support of the rebels. Background The First Liberian Civil War lasted from 1989 until 1997. By mid-1990, two rival factions of rebel fighters advanced on the Liberian capital Monrovia and President Samuel Doe was hiding out in his executive mansion near the seaside. At night, Armed Forces of Liberia, government soldiers patrolled the streets of those parts of Monrovia still under government control in search for people from Nimba County, the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Peter's Church, Shanghai
St Peter's Church () is a Catholic church in Huangpu District Huangpu, also formerly romanized Whangpoo or Whang-Po, may refer to: * Huangpu District, Shanghai, China ** Huangpu River, in Shanghai, China * Huangpu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ** Huangpu Military Academy, in Guangzhou, China * Pazhou ... (formerly Luwan District), Shanghai. History The first church to be built on this site was built in 1933 for the students of Aurora University. This church was in the Byzantine style with a central dome and five chapels. During the Sino-Japanese war, many parishioners found refuge in the international settlements and so the number of faithful attending reached three thousand. During the cultural revolution, this church was confiscated and became a cultural centre. A little space was dedicated to religious ceremonies after 1984 and finally the construction of an expressway just in front of the building drove the cultural centre to move and return the building to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Peter's Church, Fritzlar
Saint Peter's Church (German: ''St. Peterskirche'') is a Roman Catholic church and Minor basilica located in the small German town of Fritzlar. It is often colloquially referred to as a cathedral (German: ''Fritzlarer Dom''), due to its great size. History Earlier structures A first Christian place of worship at ''Frideslar'' was built by Boniface around 723, reportedly from the wood of an oak tree devoted to Donar. A church and monastery followed in ca. 732 under Wigbert. None of these buildings have left any archaeological traces yet discovered, so the first concrete evidence is for a larger church that was built around the year 800 featuring a transept width of around 24 m and a total length of 24 m. The church at Fritzlar was destroyed by the forces of Rudolf of Rheinfelden in 1079 during his confrontation with Emperor Heinrich IV. An early attempt at rebuilding was soon abandoned. Current church The current church was started around 1085/90 as a High Romanesque basilica. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Church (Cologne)
St Peter's Church (Sankt Peter) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, run by the Jesuits. The painter Rubens was baptised in the church and his ''The Crucifixion of St Peter'' is on display there – it was commissioned in 1638 by the Cologne art collector and businessman Eberhard Jabach. The building also houses the 'Kunst-Station Sankt Peter', a centre for contemporary art, music and literature. History The present building was constructed in the Gothic style between 1513 and on the remains of earlier Roman and Romanesque churches, making it the latest surviving Gothic church in the city. It is one of the churches maintained and supported by the Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln. The surviving Romanesque west tower dates to 1170. It and the nearby Cäcilienkirche are the city's only two surviving double-churches, which combined a parish church with a collegiate church or '' Stiftkirche''. In the night bombing raid on 29 June 1943, known as the "Peter-und-Paul-Angr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral (german: Kölner Dom, officially ', English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of Catholicism in Germany, German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Tourism in Germany#Landmarks, Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day. At , the cathedral is the tallest twin-spired church in the world, the second tallest church in Europe after Ulm Minster, and the third tallest church of any kind in the world. It is the largest Gothic architecture, Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the List of tallest churches in the world, second-tallest spires. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest façade of any church in the world. The Choir (architecture), choir has the largest height-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church
The Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church (''Église protestante Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune'') is one of the most important church buildings of the city of Strasbourg, France, from the art historical and architectural viewpoints. It got its name, "Young St. Peter's", because of the existence of three other St. Peter's churches in the same city: '' Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux'' ("Old St. Peter's"), divided into a Catholic and a Lutheran church, and '' Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune catholique'', a massive neo-Romanesque domed church from the late 19th century. The church has been Lutheran since 1524 and its congregation forms part of the Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine. It is located on the ''Route Romane d'Alsace''. Architecture and furnishings *The oldest part of the church is the small lower church used as a burial crypt, which is the remains of a Columban church erected in the 7th century. *Three of the four arched galleries of the cloister date from the 11th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church
Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church (french: Église Saint Pierre-le-Jeune catholique) is a late 19th-century Catholic church dedicated to Saint Peter in Strasbourg, France. It is not to be confused with the medieval Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church in the same city. History Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church was built in the Neustadt district and stands next to the main courthouse Palais de Justice. Both buildings were designed by the architect Skjold Neckelmann; the church in collaboration with his professional partner August Hartel, and the courthouse, after Hartel's death, alone. Before this Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune church was built, the Catholics and the Lutherans of Strasbourg had shared the medieval Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune church. Only in 1898 did the Catholics relinquish their claim to the older place. Appearance Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church is built in rose sandstone. It is crowned with a heavy and imposing dome: interior diameter , interior height ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Saint Peter's Church, Strasbourg
The Church of Old Saint Peters (french: Église Saint-Pierre le Vieux) is a by simultaneum Catholic and Lutheran church building in Strasbourg, Alsace is first mentioned in 1130. In the Middle Ages it was one of Diocese of Strasbourg's nine parish churches. On 22 May 1398 the Chapter of the Abbey of Honau, which had been in Rhinau since 1290, moved to Old St Peter's because of flooding in Rhinau. The Chapter stayed there until 1529, conducting its services in the choir, while the parish occupied the nave. When the Catholic rite was restored in 1683, the Chapter returned to the Church and stayed there until 1790, when it was wound up. On 20 February 1529, when Strasbourg openly joined the Reformation and suspended the practice of the mass, the Church became Lutheran. Martin Bucer and the other Strasbourg reformers had campaigned for several years to have Protestant services in all of Strasbourg's churches, but in 1525 the city council had voted to retain the mass in several chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Church, Liverdun
St Peter's Church (french: église Saint-Pierre de Liverdun) is a 12th-century Roman Catholic parish church in Liverdun, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. It has been classified a ''monument historique'' by the Ministry of Culture since 1924. Location The church stands at the heart of the upper town, which had fortifications in the Middle Ages. Its entrance portal looks out onto a square on which stand a mission cross and the portal of the clergy house, both classified ''monuments historiques'' as well. History St Peter's Church is a former collegiate church with a Romanesque tower and a modern belltower. Its 12th-century nave and side aisles have capitals. The transept also dates back to the 12th century; yet its chevet was modified in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church houses the tombstone of Saint Euchaire— a 16th-century Renaissance '' gisant'' in a funeral niche. The interior is also decorated with 18th-century paintings and old mural paintings. The building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Church, Le Crotoy
St Peter's Church is a church in Le Crotoy, a coastal town at the Bay of the Somme river in Picardy in northern France. The church is remarkable for its front tower built in the 13th century and its interior. An ancient map of Le Cotoy and its fortress can be found in the church along with an altarpiece depicting the life of St. Honoré who lived in the 15th century, as well as ex voto ships. History The St Peter's Church was formerly called Notre Dame Church and was the parish church of Le Crotoy. This sailors' chapel, dedicated to St Peter, was located in the St Peter Street in Le Crotoy, on the spot were today the St Peter's church can be found. The old church, like the one in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, had two parallel aisles and was surrounded by the cemetery. The building was such a dilapidated state that in 1850 the mayor and the priest decided to rebuild it. Both ships were destroyed and only the front tower of the 13th century was preserved. The work was completed in Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Peter's Church, Slagelse
Saint Peter's Church (Danish: ''Sankt Peders Kirke'') is a Lutheran church located in the center of Slagelse, Denmark. The congregation was originally part of the Roman Catholic Church, but was converted to Lutheranism during the Reformation. The church was originally built in the 12th century out of stone, but it has since received a variety of brick extensions and renovations. The church's steady expansions reflect the continued growth of the town. In the 14th century, Saint Michael's Church (Danish: ''Sankt Mikkels Kirke'') was built and replaced Saint Peter's Church as the main parish church of Slagelse. Saint Anders of Slagelse Saint Anders of Slagelse (Danish: ''Hellig Anders'') was a late 12th-century priest at Saint Peter's Church, Slagelse, Denmark. Although he was never canonized by the Roman Catholic church, he has been venerated by local practitioners even aft ... was a priest at the church in the late 12th century. After his death in 1205, he was venerated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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