Sunday, January 16, 2011

A few nice Religion images I found:

Boston - Park Street Historical District: American Congregational Society Building - Law and Religion

Religion


Image by wallyg

The Congregational House, a building of stone and brick, ornamented with sculptured tablets, is the site of the Congregational Library and Archives. Completed in 1898 by Shepley, Ruan and Coolidge, 14 Beacon Street was built by the American Congregational Association after they outgrew their smaller home a few blocks away at the corner of Beacon and Somerset Streets.

The emblematic sculptures on the façade represent, from east to west, Law and Religion to the left of the entrance; and Education and Philosophy to the right. Law depicts the Signing of the Compact in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 21, 1620. Religion depicts the observance of Sunday on Clark’s Island on the day before the landing at Plymouth.

Formed in 1853 with the gift of 56 books from its owners' personal collections, the Congregational Library now holds now holds 225,000 items documenting the history of one of the Congregational, Congregational Christian, Christian and United Church of Christ tradition throughout the world. The collection is also extremely rich in New England history, due to the early influence of Congregationalism in the region. Archive collection strengths include New England local church records, American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions records, missionary and charitable associations records, and manuscript sermons from the seventeenth to twentieth-century. Published materials in the library provide town histories, documentation of church architecture, theological works and hymnals. The rare book collection contains a large number of antiquarian Bibles and printed works documenting early Congregational history, from the seventeenth-century on. There is also a large collection of mid to late-nineteenth century periodicals, many published by missionary societies, particularly women's missionary societies.

Found religion

Religion


Image by aussie

I've found religion and I'm thinking of becoming Amish. Either that or become a 19th century outlaw.

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