There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

* The Chapel of Saint Helena-between the first two chapels are stairs descending to Chapel of Saint Helena.

“ On November 14, 1971, when she was invited to be the first woman to preach at Harvard Memorial Chapel.

His first published compositions, a book of Masses, had made so favorable an impression with Pope Julius III ( previously the Bishop of Palestrina ) that he appointed Palestrina musical director of the Julian Chapel.

The first ACM Hypertext ( hyperediting and databases ) academic conference took place in November 1987, in Chapel Hill NC, where many other applications, including the branched literature writing software Storyspace, were also demonstrated.

* 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

* 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

Donning the appropriate vestments and reemerging into the Sistine Chapel, the new pope is given the " Fisherman's Ring " by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, whom he first either reconfirms or reappoints.

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

His accomplishments as Pope included the establishment of the Sistine Chapel ; the group of artists that he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance into Rome with the first masterpiece of the city's new artistic age, the Vatican Archives.

The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina ( later named Borgo Sant ' Angelo ), a road leading from Castel Sant ' Angelo to Saint Peter.

The Trumpington Street Façade with the College Chapel on the right, the first building to be built by Sir Christopher Wren

Both the founding of the college and the building of the city's first college Chapel ( 1355 ) required the grant of a papal bull.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

On the Sunday following the registration — April 17, 1774 — the first true Unitarian congregation discreetly convened in the provisional Essex Street Chapel.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, from where James Freeman began teaching Unitarian doctrine in 1784, and was appointed rector and revised the Prayer Book according to Unitarian doctrines in 1786.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

* August 11 – Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave, the first held in the Sistine Chapel.

* November 1 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

* April 17 – The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.

* January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the first state university in the United States.

The first notable buildings to show this Tuscan influence were a palazzo built to house the Medici Bank ( of which only the main entrance survives ) and the centrally planned Portinari Chapel, attached to Sant ’ Eustorgio and built for the first manager of the bank's Milan branch.

In 1220, Becket's remains were relocated from this first tomb to a shrine, in the recently completed Trinity Chapel where it stood until it was destroyed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King Henry VIII.

People from Emsworth worshipped at St Peter's Chapel or in the church at Warblington.

Construction of Northwode Chapel by the monks of Jumiéges, Normandy, began in about 1140 and this became the present St Peter's Church and now the oldest surviving church on the Island.

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

His relics were transferred from his grave underneath the church of Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel on Spruce Island to the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak.

* John Brown ( writer ) ( 1830 – 1922 ), Doctor of Divinity, pastor of Bunyan's Chapel, and author of many works of theology and church history

Visitors should view the statue of the Madonna in the Lady Chapel of the church.

He stayed for 12 days and described the valley ( initially called Chapel Valley ) where Jamestown is situated as “ a marvellous fair and pleasant valley, wherein divers handsome buildings and houses were set up, and especially one which was a church, which was tiled, and whitened on the outside very fair, and made with a porch, and within the church at the upper end was set an alter ....

In 1424 the " duo preciso e noto " (" well and known duo ") of Masaccio and Masolino was commissioned by the powerful and rich Felice Brancacci to execute a cycle of frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.

In addition to the parish church, the Counts had the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the castle, with two glass windows dating from the late 15th century.

* Bond's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, an historic church in Missouri

On July 19, 1848, the morning of the first day of convention, the organizing committee arrived at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel shortly before ten o ' clock on a hot, sunny day to find a crowd gathered outside and the church doors locked — an overlooked detail.

* Pucci Chapel in the church of Trinità dei Monti, Rome

This final church was later also destroyed by Muslims, leaving only a 12x12 meter octagonal structure ( called a martyrium —" memorial "— or " Edicule ") that remains to this day .< ref >" The Chapel of Ascension.

Known proudly as the " Serra Chapel ," it also has the distinction of being the only remaining church in which the padre is known to have officiated (" Mission Dolores " was still under construction at the time of Serra's visit there ).

Officially known as the Dowd Memorial Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, the church is styled after a 15th century Gothic church.

Other important monuments are the Museum of Arts and Popular Customs, the International Museum of Naïf Art, San Andrés's Chapel, the Provincial Museum of Jaén ( which shelters an important collection of archaeological Iberian remains ), Saint Ildefonso's church, etc.

The Salvation Army has meeting rooms in the town, whilst the local Methodists, who previously worshipped in their own Chapel in Paul Street ( built in 1810 ; it is now a community centre ), have an agreement to share the parish church with the Anglican congregation.

Its liberal stance allowed it to become a Unitarian church by 1820 ( when the congregation of Southover General Baptist Chapel joined ) and is still a Unitarian chapel today.

In 1553 the Lady Chapel became a school, the Great Gatehouse a town jail, some other buildings passed to the Crown, and the Abbey Church was sold to the town for £ 400 in 1553 by King Edward VI to be the church of the parish.

* Mohawk Chapel, the oldest church in Ontario

Remarkably, there is a second important Anglo-Saxon building in the village, Odda's Chapel, a Saxon church, lying about 200 yards south-west of the church.

* Standlynch Chapel Trafalgar House, Wiltshire: restoration of church, 1859 – 66