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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia occupies a prominent location on the heights above Harpers Ferry. The original church was built in 1833 in a pseudo-Gothic style which it kept through the Civil War, the only church in Harpers Ferry to escape destruction during the war. The church was extensively altered in 1896 in the then-popular Neo-Gothic style to produce the church seen today. The church commands a sweeping vista across the gorge of the Shenandoah River above its confluence with the Potomac River. The street along the side of the church building is part of the Appalachian Trail. A short trail leads from the church to Jefferson Rock.
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. It was initially planned in the 15th century by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the ageing Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, and Carlo Maderno, with piazza and fittings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is one of the most renowned works of Italian Renaissance architecture and is the largest church in the world by interior measure. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome (these equivalent titles being held by the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome), St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world", and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom."
Catholic tradition holds that the basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, chief among Jesus's apostles and also the first Bishop of Rome (Pope). Saint Peter's tomb is directly below the high altar of the basilica, also known as the Altar of the Confession. For this reason, many popes, cardinals and bishops have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period.
St. Peter's is famous as a place of pilgrimage and for its liturgical functions. The pope presides at a number of liturgies throughout the year both within the basilica or the adjoining St. Peter's Square; these liturgies draw audiences numbering from 15,000 to over 80,000 people. St. Peter's has many historical associations, with the early Christian Church, the Papacy, the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation and numerous artists, especially Michelangelo. As a work of architecture, it is regarded as the greatest building of its age.
St. Peter's is ranked second, after the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, amongst the four churches in the world that hold the rank of major papal basilica, all four of which are in Rome, and is also one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a cathedral because it is not the seat of a bishop.
This is the west face of the tower, which was rebuilt early in the 17th century. The semi-circular band of carving was originally above a doorway which was replaced by this window instead. I think the rounded column buttresses are fairly unusual too.
The elegant 70m tower of St Peter’s Church in Riga, built in 1746-9 and then rebuiilt in the late 1960s after destruction in World War Two.
There has been a church on the site since at least 1209 and it has been destroyed and rebuilt multiple times.
Photographed from the Left Bank near the Railway Bridge.
This remarkable collegiate church in Northamptonshire dates mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries, though its origins are in the 12th century. The unusual tower was rebuilt in the late 1880s to carefully replicate the 14th century original. St Peter's Church is Grade I-listed.
St Peter United Church of Christ Coupland,TX
Hope is the ability to hear the melody of the future and the courage to dance to it today.
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This congregation was organized in 1894 by German and Swiss immigrants, Originally known as St. Petri Deutsche Evangelische Gemeinde (St. Peters German Evangelical Church), the congregation built this vernacular Gothic Revival sanctuary in 1905-1906. The meeting hall was added in 1925, and the two structures were connected in 1953. By 1955 English Language services, introduced in 1929, had replaced the worship originally conducted in German. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1989
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St Peter's Church, next to Coughton Court in Warwickshire, was built in the late 15th century by Sir Robert Throckmorton. It began life as a Catholic Church but, following Henry VIII's Reformation, is now Church of England.
This tiny one-room haven of tranquility in the busy City of Cambridge dates back to the C11th but was extensively rebuilt in 1781. By the beginning of the C20th it was again derelict but in 1930 was rebuilt once more, care being taken to preserve the 4 Saxon stone-carved mermen at each corner of the font. Mermen have an ancient link to St Peter, patron saint of fishermen. Taken with a 1975 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera model 1, on Polaroid (TIP) B+W film
This is St Peter's in the village of Normanby le Wold in Lincolnshire. This is actually the church that sits highest in Lincolnshire at 135 metres above sea level, give or take a metre or three. It also sits on the Viking Way long distance walking route from the south of the river Humber all the way down to Oakham near to Rutland Water. In fact the track I was stood on taking this photo is part of the Viking Way.
St Peter's is one of the oldest churches in Lancashire. It stands on Heysham Head, a magnificent viewpoint for Morecambe Bay.
Saint Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood (rione) of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus whom Catholics consider to be the first Pope.
At the centre of the square is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the massive Doric colonnades, four columns deep, which embrace visitors in "the maternal arms of Mother Church". A granite fountain constructed by Bernini in 1675 matches another fountain designed by Carlo Maderno in 1613.
The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace". Bernini had been working on the interior of St. Peter's for decades; now he gave order to the space with his renowned colonnades, using a simplified Doric order, to avoid competing with the palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno, but he employed it on an unprecedented colossal scale to suit the space and evoke a sense of awe.
There were many constraints from existing structures. The massed accretions of the Vatican Palace crowded the space to the right of the basilica's façade; the structures needed to be masked without obscuring the papal apartments. The obelisk marked a centre, and a granite fountain by Maderno stood to one side: Bernini made the fountain appear to be one of the foci of the ovato tondo embraced by his colonnades and eventually matched it on the other side, in 1675, just five years before his death. The trapezoidal shape of the piazza, which creates a heightened perspective for a visitor leaving the basilica and has been praised as a masterstroke of Baroque theater , is largely a product of site constraints.
According to the Lateran Treaty the area of St. Peter's Square is subject to the authority of Italian police for crowd control even though it is a part of the Vatican state.
As though the carved heads outside and the zigzag carving of the tower arch were not enough, each of the dozen or so columns supporting the arches in the nave have rich carving on their capitals. In astonishingly good condition, they're both varied and imaginative, mostly featuring creatures in a style I would describe as Celtic. These may be leopards, or some mythical beast, though I don't suppose there was much chance of a stonemason having seen a real leopard in the 12th century.
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More views of the massive east end, a creation of George Gilbert Scott. Given that almost every inch is painted or decorated in some way, the elaborate reredos is really unnecessary - Pevsner was much ruder about it, but I don't have my copy to hand. There are figures of eight saints, and on the right here are St Michael and appropriately, St Peter.
The Anglican Church of St Peter at Daylesford in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, was rebuilt in 1860 and is a Grade I listed building. The original church on the site was Norman. The church was rebuilt in 1816 by Warren Hastings, who owned the nearby Daylesford House, and it was again rebuilt to the designs of J. L. Pearson in 1859–63. The sandstone cruciform building has a central unbuttressed tower and stone slate roofs.
The churches were amazing in Germany. This is St Peter's Church in Munich/München and is the oldest in town. It is on the same site where eighth-century monks had established a monastery, Peterskirche was designed in the Romanesque style. The monks had called this area Peterbergl, or Peter's Hill, so a similar name was given to the church. The same monks also gave the city its current name, as München is derived from Mönch, the German word for monk.
The mostly-wooden church stood for only 150 years before a fire totally destroyed the structure. During the next forty years (1328-1368), the church was reconstructed, with many Gothic motifs added.
The church stood in its Romanesque/Gothic splendor for the next three centuries, only to have a Renaissance steeple added during the seventeenth century. Shortly after that, a Baroque choir was added at Peterskirche. Just a century or so later, it was completely renovated - this time in an elaborate Rococo style.
Near the end of World War II, the church was almost completely destroyed. Its reconstruction began shortly after the end of the war, and was finally completed in the year 2000.
Round the south-west corner of the church, another double row of blind arcading supported by some charmingly carved corbels. These are, like the others, a mixture of animal and human heads, including at the right-hand end, a two-headed creature.
St Peter's Church at Farmington, in the Cotswolds, was built between 1150 and 1170. It is a Grade I Listed Building, with original nave and chancel, partially restored.
Amsterdam - Sint Pietershalsteeg.
Right: De Sint Pieters- of Grote Vleeshal ( St. Peter's Hall) (1933).
Left: Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond (Flemish Arts Centre "De Brakke Grond") (1981).
Middle: Rear of a retail store of Hudson's Bay Company (now closed).
Church of St. Peter in Vienna is one of the most interesting Baroque churches of Austrian capital.
The first church, of which there no remain any relics, was maybe belonged to the oldest temples in Vienna and perhaps already established in the 4th century On the site of the former Roman camp.
The construction of this church started in 1701 and in 1733 was consecrated church. Holy Trinity and St. Peter.
This church is the first Baroque dome building in Vienna. The compact form combines surprisingly spacious, richly decorated inside with rectangular outbuildings.
Church of Sts. Peter was the favorite temple of Empress Elisabeth called Sissi, wife of Franz Joseph I.
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Kościół św. Piotra w Wiedniu jest jedną z najciekawszych barokowych świątyń stolicy Austrii.
Pierwszy kościół, z którego nie pozostały żadne relikty, należał do najstarszych świątyń wiedeńskich i być może powstał już w IV w. na terenie dawnego obozu rzymskiego.
Budowę tego kościoła rozpoczęto 1701 a w 1733 nastąpiła konsekracja pw. Trójcy Świętej i św. Piotra.
Kościół jest pierwszą barokową kopułową budowlą Wiednia. W zwartej formie łączy zaskakująco przestrzenne, bogato zdobione wnętrze z prostokątnymi przybudówkami.
Kościół św. Piotra był ulubioną świątynią cesarzowej Elżbiety zwanej Sissi, małżonki Franciszka Józefa I.
The church was built in 1654 in dedication to Saint Peter over a medieval citadel that was erected by Frederick I and restored by Louis IX of France at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century. However, in the late eighteenth century the church was twice destroyed and consequently twice rebuilt. The current structure was built between 1888 and 1894 and most recently renovated in 1903. The church was constructed on its present location because of the significance Jaffa has to Christianity. It was in Jaffa that Saint Peter raised Tabitha, one of Jesus' disciples, from the dead according to the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 9:36-43, Acts 10:1-4. The church is dedicated to him. Since the large church is located on a hill near the shore, the building has historically dominated the view of Jaffa from the sea, thus serving as a beacon to pilgrims, signaling that the Holy Land is near.
St. Peter's Church (Danish: St. Petri Kirke, German: St.-Petri-Kirche) is the parish church of the German-speaking community in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is situated at the corner of Nørregade and Sankt Peders Stræde in the city's Latin Quarter. Built as a single-nave church in the mid-15th century, it is the oldest building in central Copenhagen. It is also notable for its extensive complex of sepulchral chapels. (Wikipedia)
Completed in 1525, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham, Suffolk, England.
Taken with the Fufilm X100F.
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This is the view that the faithful who stand at the back of the square have when the Pope gives a talk.
St. Peter Port is built along a ridge above the harbour on Guernsey, Channel Islands. This deep safe anchorage has been a busy port since Roman times.
As though the carved heads outside and the zigzag carving of the tower arch were not enough, each of the dozen or so columns supporting the arches in the nave have rich carving on their capitals. In astonishingly good condition, they're both varied and imaginative, mostly featuring creatures in a style I would describe as Celtic. This may or may not be a leopard, apparently content to be eating vegetation.
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The village of Rushbury is roughly five miles from Church Stretton and eight miles from Much Wenlock. The founding date of the parish church is unknown, but according to British Listed Buildings it was most likely built around Saxon times. There was a major rebuild in the 12th century. The name St Peter was known by around 1740. Between 1548-1792 the church belonged to the lord of Rushbury manor. In the 1800s the rector of Rushbury received £40 a year in half of grain and corn tithes from the local population. It is known that in 1716 there were two Sunday services, one with a sermon and communion six times a year. In the mid 18th century, sacrament offerings (charity money) were given to the poor.
The Grade II*-listed church was restored in 1855-1856 by William Hill of Smethcott with the costs being met by subscriptions and grants from the Hereford Diocesan Church Building Society. The registers begin in 1538, but there are several gaps in the 16th and 17th centuries.