Sentences with phrase «centuries house churches»

For several centuries house churches served as the locus for small groups of Christians to pray, hear Scripture, sing praise, eat meals, celebrate the Eucharist and share offerings with the poor.

For example, he takes one on a tour of the baptistery in the early - third century house church of Dura Europos (Ferguson, Baptism 440 - 443).

Roman flags didn't stand next to Christian flags in first - century house churches, and followers of Jesus viewed themselves as citizens of One: One Lord, One baptism, One kingdom of sojourners scattered across the earth as colonies of heaven.

Not exact matches

Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

I can give you the short answer as to why Catholic Churches were so beautiful in earlier centuries; in the words of Isaiah, «I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.»

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

In Greco - Roman culture of the first few centuries, I look at house churches and say, «Yes.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

In the historical context, these churches housed the vast majority of American Christians from the colonial era up until the early 20th century where they began to lose membership due to their being labeled too «liberal».

The hairy, bell bottom - wearing believers of Bugbrooke were aiming to model the first - century Church as they lived together in communal houses across Northamptonshire.

Today no church is considered complete without a parish house or education building; but in the 13th century, if anyone had suggested that a church should erect a building to house the religious activities of the congregation, that person would have been regarded as out of touch with reality.

In the past half century, the Protestant presence in Oaxaca has proliferated from a few isolated outposts to an impressive number of house churches, church buildings and Bible institutes.

In part the act was intended as a remedy for the House of Commons» tendency in the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries to amend church legislation with provisions that would have disestablished it.

Gostiniy dvor ensemble with Spasskaya church, Susanin square ensemble, Molochnaya gora street, General Borshchov's House and other historical sites in the city center are the fine examples of Russian architecture of 18 - 19 centuries.

The new school is housed at Compton's Church of the Redeemer, whose pastor, Kerry Allison, sees education reform as the civil rights movement of this century.

The Begijnhof's complex of buildings includes two fifteenth - century churches later handed over to English and Scottish Protestants and a wooden house that is the oldest in Amsterdam.

With one of Venice's finest restaurants, a renowned centre for Classical studies, a Renaissance church, and an eighteenth - century musical theatre, Campo San Fantin mirrors many of the Commissario's interests: his passion for food and drink, music and art, Greek and Roman classics — and, when the conductor is found dead in the opera house, crime.

Life is elemental in Guanajuato, a slice of 17th century Spain dropped into central Mexico, where one of the richest silver mines in history filled Spanish coffers and built the remote village into a pocket - size metropolis of Baroque churches, welcoming European plazas, a classic opera house and, apparently, medieval street planning.

Make stops in UNESCO listed Hallstatt, one of Austria's most photographed villages thanks to its traditional pastel - coloured houses perched on the tiny plain between the mountains and Hallstättersee Lake, as well as Mondsee.This pretty town is set on the lake of the same name, and its most famous sight is the 15th - century parish church, which featured in the wedding scenes of «The Sound of Music».

It has a large Dutch Reformed church dating from the 19th century and many Victorian houses, streets and building.

It is surrounded by museums, churches, colonial houses and squares typical, is part of the history of twentieth - century Lima...

The two charcoal - colored town houses of the Hotel Julien are surrounded by 17th - century churches, gabled mansions, and cobblestoned alleys.

Around the corner from the larger Santa Maria Maggiore, this 8th century church was designed to house the remains of the two martyred daughters of St. Peter's first Christian convert in Rome.

The largest Franciscan church in the world, the beautiful Basilica di Santa Croce was consecrated in the fifteenth century and is notable both for its superb artworks and for housing funerary monuments to Italian luminaries including Dante, Galileo, Rossini, Michelangelo and Machiavelli.

Entered by crossing a single - lane bridge, Carennac is notable for its lovingly restored and preserved medieval houses, church and fortifications and superb sixteenth - century castle.

Still in the Harz Mountains, at Quedlingburg, a gorgeous town with a delightful Romanesque church and well - preserved red - roofed houses, where the 10th century stronghold of Burgberg looms imposingly over the town, is another narrow - gauge railway - the Selketal Railway - that runs through the Selke Valley.

The Old Town of Serra San Bruno, known as the Terravecchia («Old Land») has a collection of pretty 18th century Baroque churches and delightful two - storey houses.

While in Bardolino stop off at the San Severo, the eighth century church houses beautiful frescoes to be admired.

The major buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include monuments such as the Old Fort, built on the site of an earlier Portuguese church; the house of wonder, a large ceremonial palace built by Sultan Barghash; and the Old Dispensary.

A history that began in the fourth century with a Roman fortress and settlement has bestowed a wealth of stunningly - preserved historic buildings upon Boppard from the remains of the original Roman city wall to the twelfth - century Church of St. Severus, notable for its twin spires and beautiful stained - glass windows, and to the many half - timbered houses which were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

These include the Kariye (Khora) Mosque and Museum and the characteristic neighbourhood of Balat, with its colourful century - old Ottoman houses protected by UNESCO, with the iconic Pierre Loti Hill only a five - minute drive away and the city's historic Holy Churches, Synagogues and Mosques within walking distance.

Sitting alone in the eighteenth - century interior of a surviving Huguenot house in the shadow of Hawksmoor's Christ Church in Spitalfields, London, we see the artist writing a poignant letter to a lost love.

Housed in a refurbished two - storey wooden school and church building from the 19th century, located in Bangkok's Bang Rak District, long - running H Gallery is one of Thailand's leading private galleries and a jumping - off platform for Thai artists with international ambitions.

The artists spent time within the iconic house and throughout Church's 250 acre artist - designed landscape, utilizing the nineteenth - century painter's home on the Hudson as muse.

The Bizantine Fresco Chapel was built in 1997 to house two rare 13th century fresco paintings; after a long inquiry, it emerged that the paintings were actually stolen in the»80s from the church of St. Evphemianos in Cyprus and, after an agreement between the Menil Foundation and the Church of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country inchurch of St. Evphemianos in Cyprus and, after an agreement between the Menil Foundation and the Church of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country inChurch of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country in 2012.

It's apt that the Zabludowicz space inhabits a historic 19th - century building that previously housed a Methodist Church and a drama school.

Founded in 1964 by Larry Aldrich, the museum is housed in an 18th century converted church and general store, and maintains a white, clapboard appearance (along with a modern glass extension).

Dominique de Menil's son, François, designed and built the Byzantine Chapel for the express purpose of housing a group of 13th - century frescoes that had been looted from a small church near the Cypriot village of Lysi.

The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kustmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 2010 GSK Contemporary — Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy, London, England 2010 Raw, 242nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England 2010 Lust and Vice: The 7 Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Art Museum of Bern, Switzerland 2010 Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England 2010 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 2010 The House of Fairy Tales, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England 2010 Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, California, USA 2010 Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA 2010 Eye of the Pacific Rim, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan City, Korea 2010 Foundation of Art: Sculpture and its Base since Rodin, ARP Museum, Bonn, Germany 2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England 2010 Who Knows Tomorrow, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany 2010 Until Now: Collecting the Contemporary (1960 - 2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA 2010 Size DOES Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA 2010 Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2010 Pattern I.D., Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA 2010 Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London, England 2010 Performance / Art, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, USA 2010 DaDaFest International, Liverpool, England

Vatican Museums One of the best art museums in Europe, it houses the priceless collection of painting, Italian Renaissance sculpture and antiquities assembled over the centuries by the Catholic Church.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

To see Teresita Fernández's installation, Overlook, one must book a tour of Olana, the house built by the preeminent Hudson River School landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826 — 1900) in the last half of the nineteenth century.

At the turn of the last century Coopers had an illustrated catalogue of iron buildings (for home and export) of churches, hospitals, club houses, residences, cottages, offices, stables, motor car houses, billiard rooms and ballrooms.

Connected to a 12 - century Byzantine Christian church, which was until recently used by monks, this cave hotel still has some rooms that were former housing for the monks.