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Church Attractions In South Africa

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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa , is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland ; and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and, with close to 56 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of th...
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Church Attractions In South Africa

  • 4. Barrydale Dutch Reformed Church Barrydale
    Barrydale is a village located on the border of the Overberg and Klein Karoo regions of the Western Cape Province in South Africa. Named after Joseph Barry, a well known merchant of the 19th century it is situated at the northern end of the Tradouw's pass which winds its way through the mountains to Swellendam.
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  • 5. St Augustine's Catholic Cathedral Port Elizabeth
    St. Augustine's Cathedral, also called the Catholic Cathedral of Port Elizabeth, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located on Prospect Hill in the city of Port Elizabeth, part of the Eastern Cape Province on the coast of the African country of South Africa. The first stone of the present Gothic structure was placed in 1861 under the impulse of Father Thomas Murphy; the church was finished and consecrated in 1866.The congregation follows the Roman or Latin rite, and the cathedral is the mother church of the diocese of Port Elizabeth , which obtained its current name in 1939 and received the status of diocese in 1951 through the bull Supreme Nobis of pope Pius XII. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Vincent Mduduzi Zungu.
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  • 7. Dutch Reformed Church Beaufort West
    White Africans of European ancestry are Africans descended from any of the white ethnic groups originating on the European continent. In 1989, there were an estimated 5.6 million white people with European ancestry on the African continent. Most are of Dutch, British, Portuguese, German, French, and to a lesser extent, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Russians, Jewish or Irish descent. The majority once lived along the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, or in Zimbabwe.The earliest permanent European communities in Africa were formed at the Cape of Good Hope; Luanda, in Angola; São Tomé Island; and Santiago, Cape Verde through the introduction of Portuguese and Dutch traders or military personnel. Other groups of settlers appeared when France and Great Britain colonized Africa. Before regional...
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  • 9. Regina Mundi Soweto
    Regina Mundi , designed by architect Anthony Noel Errol Slaven, is the largest Roman Catholic church in South Africa. It is located in Rockville, Soweto, a populous black urban residential area within the city of Johannesburg. Due to the role it played as a place of gathering for the people of Soweto in the years before, during, and after the anti-apartheid struggle, it is often referred to as the people's church or the people's cathedral. The church is located in the middle of Soweto, in Rockville, in the neighbourhood of Moroka; it was built in 1964, replacing Moroka's former parish church. While the A-shaped exterior of the building is quite ordinary in design, its main feature is the vast interior, that can accommodate as many as 5000-7000 people. The stained-glass windows are decorate...
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  • 12. The Methodist Cathedral Grahamstown
    Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was the Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then the Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first indigenous black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology; politically, he identifies as a socialist. Tutu was born of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage to a poor family in Klerksdorp, British Imperial South Africa. Entering adulthood, he trained as a teacher and married Nomalizo Leah Tutu, with whom he had several children. In 1960, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1962 moved to the United Kingdom to study theology at King's College London...
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  • 14. St Mark's Cathedral George
    The Anglican Cathedral of St Mark in George in South Africa is the seat of the Diocese of George. The present bishop is Brian Melvin Marajh.
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