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...All around the Pinheiro Baptist Church is abandonment. On either side of its white steeple stand houses and shops with bricked-up windows, no roofs and tropical vegetation sprouting....
...In the heyday of the Christian revival just over a century ago, preachers of Baptist and Methodist persuasions dotted the Welsh landscape with the chapels they built, leaving an architectural legacy as nonconformist...
...An hour and a half later, we see the carved-stone back of the 14th-century chapel looming above us....
...the Baptist minister’s residence at various points....
...Jeffress, a diminutive but sharp-tongued 64-year-old, who is pastor at the 14,000-member First Baptist Dallas church, appeared on Fox News and praised Trump — a candidate who shared his own derision for...
...Commissioned in 1483 to adorn a chapel in the church of San Francesco Grande in Milan, the large-scale painting was acknowledged on its completion as a triumph, a revolutionary work that brought together...
...Conceived for a church in Milan, where Leonardo moved in 1482, it shows Madonna, Christ, St John the Baptist and an angel in a rocky, flower-filled glade....
...Even that morning, I had laboured up the mountain behind the village of Kita to ring the chapel bell of tiny Agia Pelagia at its summit, a plaintive peal echoed by the tolling of the church bell in Kita...
...A provincial artist such as Piero must have been fascinated by the solid, uncompromising figures and spatial depth of freschi by Masaccio, for example, in the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria...
...That ink and charcoal monument was White’s response to the Ku Klux Klan’s bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed four young girls and lit a wildfire of outrage and mourning....
...All the buildings . . . all the pretty chapels they got there? Inmates built that. All the stained-glass windows? Inmates done that....
...Some of the best evidence of this occurs in the medieval cartulary, or register of documents, of the hospital of St John the Baptist, outside Eastgate in Oxford, which owned land there and so preserved copies...
...Other prisoners, led on to the roof of the Lady Chapel to watch, were pardoned, but the days of the Levellers were numbered....
...in 1780); Episcopalians, Baptists and at least three types of Brethren who shunned all entertainment....
...Certainly, the acidic hues and twisting torsos of the Sistine Chapel ceiling haunt many paintings here....
...The building is a lofty expression of Asturian art – especially in the monastery church, restored to its original combination of whitewash and stone lit up with gold leaf and polychrome, where a chapel contains...
...It also lets modern gallery-goers see Murillo as his contemporaries did, with Dulwich Picture Gallery transformed into a church-like space complete with nave, side chapels and an altar....
...Between them Gaddi and Starnina tutored Masolino, a painter famous for assisting Masaccio, considered the first true Renaissance painter, on the fresco cycle in the Brancacci chapel in Florence’s Church...
...Most dispiriting of all is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a maze of dismal and dilapidated chapels, which feels utterly unworthy of its sacred charge....
...White doves fly; the graceful white arms of the windmill start to turn; and now the windmill makes flour for bread again: a moving moment....
...St John’s Co-Cathedral, built in 1573, has a lavish, Maltese baroque interior with elaborate chapels for the knightly fraternities....
...A woman in the Marines, who has to remain anonymous, says that although chapel and prayer were technically optional, “it was frowned upon” to opt out....
...Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is now formally known as the King Memorial Baptist Church....
...From the Tabor Baptist Chapel, make the steep climb up Mynydd Dinas, using footpaths at first through stonewalled enclosures of grazing sheep....
...“You should definitely see the Baptist Chapel,” he tells me, after a ponder....
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