20231106. Standing in the modernist shade
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20230328. The back half of the Salvation Army Florence Booth House (women’s shelter) was actually built first as a church in 1906. It will be the only facade restored and retained as the building is rebuilt to better serve the community. You can see where the entrance was and that there were long windows on either side of the door and along the south facade.
20221102. Rexdale Alliance Church and the curious cross.
20221015. The cute little Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nepean, Ottawa.
20221011. Pleasant Park Baptist Church (Norman D. Sherriff, 1961) features a zigzag chimney and handrail, coloured tiles and glass blocks.
20220926. The tent-shaped St-Rémi Parish by Polish architect Zygmunt Julian Nowak, 1965.
20220916. Nested Triangles Parish or St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church in Alta Vista. Burgess, MCLean & MacPhadyen, 1959.
20220908. Vanier Community Church = City Church + Capital City Bikers Church. “Our services have a very relaxed feel, powerful ‘rock and roll’ music, and dynamic messages.”
20220813. Evangel Temple Toronto has a postmodern crucifix (1983).
20220810. Paroisse St-Rémi is a mid-century expressionist church especially from the sky.
20220805. Rideauview Bible Chapel (Watson and Weigand, 1967), an asymmetrical nondenominational A-frame.
20220804. A lamp on the rear brick wall of Leslieville’s long demolished Woodgreen United Church.
20220802. A mid-century modern church steeple.
20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
20220720. The triangles of Seicho-No_Ie (say-choh no ee-yay) Toronto, where they worship a nondenominational God based on the divine inspirations of one man in 1930 Japan.
20220714. The Chinese Presbyterian Church at 177 Beverley Street with its furry brick elevator shaft.
20220712. Wexford Presbyterian Church wears a crown of 12 triangular dormers.
20220702. The church with the long pointy hat. First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa (1967).
20220628. Jim Strut’s Trinity United Church is said to represent Noah’s Ark, with the high copper roof, the pointed structure at the south end simulating the bow and the interior laminated redwood pillars representing the spars.
20220626. The Ottawa Church of God in profile.
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220603. The one-of-a-kind 1959 Church of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr (Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic).
20220529. The cute Queensway Baptist Church at 950 Islington Ave.
20220403. Sunday is a good day for a church. Here is St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Rexdale.
