On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

The town church was built between 1471 and 1478.

It was originally in the street in front of city hall, but was moved to its present location in front of the town church in 1905 due to increased traffic.

In the town centre is St Elvan's Church, a Church in Wales church at the heart of the Parish of Aberdare.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

This fast population growth and slow response from the established church allowed non-conformism to flourish in the town.

The town served as a supply depot during the period, and it included a post office, a depot, a blacksmith shop and stable, a couple of general stores, two saloons, a school, a Methodist church, and about a dozen houses.

In 1588 the troops of François, Duke of Lesdiguières entered the town and set fire to the church and convent during their campaign against the Duke of Savoy.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

A Persian geographer recorded in the mid-9th century that a well preserved and much venerated church existed in the town.

** Christchurch Priory, a historic church in the town

The first school and church opened in 1866, and the town was platted in 1867.

The eastern parts of the town surrendered at midday of 13 April ; a white flag was raised in the tower of the Kallio church.

In time it took on the typical shape of a Basque town, comprising a series of parallel streets ( Goyenkale, Azokekale, Artekale and Barrenkale ) and a transverse street called Santa María, with a church at each end of the built-up area.

Work on this church, at the top of the town, began in 1418 in a Gothic style, and continued non-stop until 1625, though the finishing touches were not completed until 1715, in the Renaissance period.

However, the superintendent of the school, Caspar Calvoer, recognized Telemann's talents and even introduced him to musical theory ; Telemann continued composing and playing various instruments, taught himself thoroughbass and regularly supplied music for the church choir and the town musicians.

In 1517 the Reformation began with the publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses ; he had posted them in the town square, and gave copies of them to German nobles, but it is debated whether he nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg as is commonly said.

In 1725 and 1766 large fires destroyed most of the town, leveling parts of the old townhouse and the church next to it.

The original part St Leonards was laid out in the early 19th century as a new town: a place of elegant houses designed for the well-off ; it also included a central public garden, a hotel, an archery, assembly rooms and a church.

Each church was equidistant from the Abbey and on one of the main approaches to the town.

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.

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

A new St. Mary's church was built within the new town before the 1260s, while St. Mary's in the former Pomeranian stronghold was turned into a nuns ' abbey.

The design, which radically transformed the center of the town, included a palace for the pope, a church, a town hall and a building for the bishops who would accompany the Pope on his trips.

Gruyères is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

The municipality of Gruyères also comprises the two villages of Épagny ( above sea level ) to the north and Pringy ( above sea level ) to the west of the town hill.

The heraldic representation of the crane ( in French: “ grue ”) which inspired the name of the town of Gruyères.

Gruyères has always been a rural town.

In 1397 Count Rudolph IV of Gruyères confirmed an older town charter that was based on the model of Moudon.

A major tourist attraction is the medieval town of Gruyères with its castle, containing a regional museum and an arts museum.

Gruyère ( or ; ) is a hard yellow cheese, named after the town of Gruyères in Switzerland, and originated in the cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura, and Berne.

* Gruyères, a town in the Gruyère district of Switzerland that gave its name to the cheese

In the Swiss town of Gruyères, a trackless train is the only vehicle allowed in the pedestrianised streets.

* Gruyère ( cheese ), a hard yellow cheese made from cow's milk, named after the town of Gruyères

* Gruyères, a town in the Gruyère district, known for the cheese named after it

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

Karen Black, originally cast as the ingenue, was replaced out of town.

The lycée André-Honnorat de Barcelonnette, originally the collège Saint-Maurice and renamed after the politician André Honnorat in 1919, is located in the town ; Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Carole Merle both studied there.

The Bonaparte ( originally Buonaparte ) family were from minor Italian nobility who held most of their property in the hill town of San Miniato near Florence, Italy.

The town included a much larger area than the present city, with various outlying parts becoming independent towns over the years: Newton ( originally Cambridge Village, then Newtown ) in 1688, Lexington ( Cambridge Farms ) in 1712, and both West Cambridge ( originally Menotomy ) and Brighton ( Little Cambridge ) in 1807.

The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa ), was originally used to describe a Roman public building ( as in Greece, mainly a tribunal ), usually located in the forum of a Roman town.

In contrast to the east side, the central and west neighborhoods originally contained many of the working class Germans who settled the town.

One of the legacies of the guilds, the elevated Windsor Guildhall was originally a meeting place for guilds, as well as magistrates ' seat and town hall.

An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).

The town was officially incorporated in 1694, and originally included the lands of the current town of Brewster.

It was originally located in the heart of Kajang town and now has a new and larger branch in Bandar Technologi Kajang.

Further south in Macedonia, near the town of Zletovo, the monastery of Lesnovo ( Lesnovo Manastir ), originally built in the 11th century, was renovated in the middle of the 14th century and a series of murals were painted.

There is no large body of evidence to show that Assyrian monarchs built at all extensively in Nineveh during the 2nd millennium BC ; it appears to have been originally an " Assyrian provincial town ".

Other points of interest in the town include the prison museum and the town churchyard which houses the graves of French and American prisoners of war who were originally housed at the prison.

The element-linna, like Germanic-burg and Slavic-grad /-gorod, originally meant " fortress " but is used as a suffix in the formation of town names.

The crowd and stage in 1969. The concert was originally scheduled to take place in the Mills Industrial Park () in the town of Wallkill, New York, which Woodstock Ventures had leased for $ 10, 000 in the Spring of 1969.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

The old name of the town / village ( originally the island Kirkelandet ) was Fosna or Fosen ( Old Norse: fólgsn ) which means " hiding place " ( here ' hidden port ').

It is possible that the stone was originally the one from which the town crier, or bruiter called his bruit or news ; or it may be le Brodestone, a boundary stone mentioned in several 15th century disputes: its last-known position in 1471 was below the East Gate.

The Irish County Kildare derives its name from the town of Kildare which originally in Irish was Cill Dara meaning the Church of the Oak or Oak Church.