Antiphonitis: church exterior

Antiphonitis is a 12th century domed church in Cyprus.

The mosaics, depicting Saints Thaddeus and Thomas, are two more sections from the apse of the Kanakaria Church, while the frescoes, including the Last Judgement and the Tree of Jesse, were taken off the north and south walls of the Monastery of Antiphonitis, built between the 12th and 15th centuries.

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

Besides Church and Sunday School I went to out-of-door meetings on the sidewalk at the church door.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

`` There's a tower and a steeple on the church a million feet high.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

In a periodic review, the local board on July 30, 1953, reclassified him 1-a and upheld this classification after a personal appearance by petitioner, because of his willingness to kill in defense of his church and home.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

This may mean having fellowship in the church with people with whom, on the level of merely human agreeableness, we might prefer not to have any association at all.

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

A local church which conceives its function to be entirely that of ministering to the conscious desires and concerns of its members tends to look on everything ecumenical as an extra, not as a normal aspect of its own life as a church.

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

What goes on in the cage will occupy our attention under the rubric of the organization church.

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

Can religious agencies use Government funds and Peace Corps personnel in their projects and still preserve the constitutional requirement on separation of church and state??

To start the week of special programs at the church, the Rev. John D. Henderson will preach on `` A Successful Marriage '' at 9:40 and 11 a.m. Sunday.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

The lay leadership of the church may be invited to speak on the various phases of church life, service opportunities, the church school, missions, men's work, women's work, youth program, social activities, and finances.

Take a picture of the group of new members to be put in the church paper or placed on the bulletin board.

It went to church on Sunday and one Saturday a month went to confession.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

I was not sure the magic worked outside the church walls ... in the open air of Mississippi.

Graffiti, known as Tacherons, were frequently scratched on Romanesque Scandinavian church walls.

Labyrinths, often of the Chartres design, began to appear on church walls and floors around 1000 C. E., and there are even examples from churches in the Roman Empire.

This was a Doric edifice with six columns on the short sides and 14 on the long ones: these can still be seen incorporated in the walls of the current church.

* October 17 – The Adige River overflows its banks, flooding the church of St. Zeno and damaging the walls of Verona.

Theodoric, following his imperial predecessors, also built many splendid buildings in and around Ravenna, including his palace church Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo, an Arian cathedral ( now Santo Spirito ) and Baptistery, and his own Mausoleum just outside the walls.

The floor of the church is made of opus sectile, a mosaic of coloured marble, and there are some remains of frescoes on the walls.

The church is of the Cistercian type, with a short chancel ( 3 ), and transepts ( 4 ) with three eastward chapels to each, divided by solid walls.

Under the influence of the growing realms of the Franks a church was build in the 7th century within the walls of the Roman fortress during Dagobert I's reign.

The head was then mounted on the walls of the newly built church to scare off evil spirits, and used for protection.

It is also thought that their presence assured congregants that evil is kept outside of the church ’ s walls.

The church, with a single nave, has traces of the ancient frescoes ( 13th century ), which probably covered all the walls.

The church of St. Anna had existed since the 13th c., initially as “ Santa Maria in Porta Cipriana ”, on ruins of the ancient Greek walls of Ancona.

On October 21, 1868 a 7. 0 magnitude earthquake on the Hayward fault which runs through the grounds of the Mission shattered the walls of the Mission church and broke open the roof.

A new church, constructed with walls and great pine beams brought from nearby Figueroa Mountain, was dedicated on July 4, 1817.

The bones were then exhumed and stored in ossuaries, either along the arcaded bounding walls of the cemetery, or within the church under floor slabs and behind walls.

The Annunciation monastery, likewise surrounded by strong walls, has another five-domed cathedral ( 1649 ) and the Assumption church ( 1678 ).

Two of the Roman milestones found in Cornwall are at Tintagel ( the earlier of the two is described under Trethevy ): the later one was found in the walls of the churchyard in 1889 and is preserved in the church.

Tintagel has also the Catholic church of St Paul the Apostle which has a thirty-thousand piece mosaic of the saint within its walls.

As of July 2012, the area at the foot of church of Saint-Eustache is once again upturned earth, broken concrete and temporary construction walls, as construction on a new public green space atop the shopping center is underway.

Even in the 12th century, Peter of Blois had described the old church as " a captive within the walls of the citadel like the ark of God in the profane house of Baal ".

Only the Abdijkerk ( Abbey church ), the monastery terrain, and bits and pieces of walls remind us of the religious beginnings of the city.

In this time the castle was finally completed and new buildings, including the city walls and the Holy Cross church, were constructed.