Christian Collection (#59)

London Scientology H. Q
The Scientology and Dianetics shop of Tottenham Court Road, the London headquarters of the religious sect founded by L. Ron Hubbard in Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A. in 1953. Date: 1980s

Jean-Baptiste LA Salle
JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE French churchman, educator and benefactor, founder of the Freres Chretiens (Christian brothers). Date: 1651 - 1719

Lavenham Village Cross
The square and market cross in the historic town of Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Date: 1960s

Fashionably Devout
Fashionably devout : the sun shines on two kneeling women inside a church. Date: 1930s

Sarsden Village Cross
The ancient village cross at Sarsden, Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1930s

Venetian Ceremony
A Christian religious ceremony across a wooden stilted walkway towards St. Marks Cathedral, Venice, Italy. Date: 1930s

Christening Silver 1818
Silver candelabras and candlesticks, also Russian samovar and silver dish with ewer, used at the christening of King Christian IX (father of Queen Alexandra), 1818. Date: 1930s

Supreme being Taught
Placard for use in schools, intended to inculcate devotion to L Etre Supreme instead of the old Christian deity, proposed by Robespierre and approved by the Convention. Date: 7 May 1794

Nazareth Chapel
The interior of a small chapel in Nazareth, Israel. Date: 1960s

Coptic Priest
A spectacular portrait of an Coptic Priest, holding a small cross. Copts in Egypt constitute the largest Christian community in the Middle East

Corn Dollies at Dymock church, Gloucestershire, England. This pagan symbols are still used in modern Christian churches as thanks for a fruitful life. Date: August 1963

Christian August Crusius
CHRISTIAN AUGUST CRUSIUS German churchman and professor at Leipzig Date: 1717 - 1775

Christian Krohg Statue
Memorial statue of Norwegian naturalist painter, author and journalist CHRISTIAN KROHG (1852 - 1925), surrounded by tourists enjoying a drink at an open air cafe, Oslo, Norway Date: late 1960s

Bethlehem Tourism
A security guard smiles as a couple of tourists enter a historic building in Bethlehem, Israel. Date: late 1960s

St. Ninians Chapel
The ruins of St. Ninians Chapel, near the harbour, Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland. It is reputed to be the first recordced Christian church in Scotland. Date: circa 397 A, D

All Faiths Cross
A non-Christian cross and solar disk on the exterior of Atlantic House, London, which represents the generic multi faith ideal of sacrifice. The disc representing Odin. Date: 1930s

Dodman Point Cross
Dodman Point, the highest granite cross in Cornwall, England, erected to honour the men of Cornwall who are spreading the (Christian) Gospel worldwide. Date: 1930s

Early Christian Chapel
Gallarus Oratory, near Smerwick, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. This strange building is an early Christian chapel, stone with no mortar, Date: circa 800 A.D

Christ. Fr. Blankenburg
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH BLANKENBURG German writer. Date: 1744 - 1796

CHRISTIANS AWAKE MSS
The original manuscript of the popular English hymn Christians Awake composed by John Byrom as a Christmas present for his daughter, Dolly. Date: 1745

Nativity Crib
The Story of the Nativity (birth of Jesus Christ) - a tiny model of the Manger, shown in St. Nicholas Church, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, at Christmas. Date: 1950s

Harvest Festival
A Harvest Festival scene in the Choir of Englands Smallest Church at Culbone, Somerset, England. Date: 1950s

Czar Boris III
CZAR BORIS III OF BULGARIA attending Easter Service at Rilo Monastery, 1 May 1932. Date: 1894 - 1943

Lady Harriet Acland
Lady Christian Henrietta, known as HARRIET ACLAND wife of Colonel John Dyke Acland, soldier in America. Date: 1750 - 1815

The Heathen and the Christian - Play
The Heathen and the Christian - promotional postcard for this play - performed at The Grand Theatre Southampton between 1908-1909

The Ice Maiden, a story by Hans Christian Andersen. 20th century

The Little Match Seller, a story by Hans Christian Andersen. 20th century

Othodox Russian Church - Geneva, Switzerland Date: circa 1910s

The Wild Swans by Lilian Govey. The wicked Queen mistreating the young Princes. A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen Date: 1912

Saint Augustine
St Augustine (circa first third of the 6th century probably 26th May 604) - He was sent to Britain by Pope Gregory as a missionary

Belinda Belville suit, 1962
A box pleat skirt in blue plaid wool worn with a matching jacket and a white felt cloche hat and white sleeveless blouse, by Belinda Belville

Christian Dior (1905 - 1957), French couturier and founder of one of the greatest of fashion houses. Credited with launching the extravagent post-war New Look. Date: 1961

St Augustine and the English
St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory as a missionary to England. He went first to King Ethelbert (because his French wife Bertha was already a Christian). Date: Circa 600 AD

Interior of Old Crathie Church
Worshippers inside old Crathie Kirk in the Scottish village of Crathie in 1851, known as the place of worship of the British Royal Family when they are at nearby Balmoral

Swedish Scouts building an altar in the forest. circa 1960s

Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony at troop review
Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen (1893-1968), later head of the Royal House of Saxony. Seen here at a troop review in Romania during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

The Ugly Duckling by Lilian Govey. They threw grain and bread into the water. A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen Date: 1912

South Africa - Kenhardt - Mission Church
Construction of Kenhardt Dutch Reformed Mission Church, South Africa. Built in 1889, although this card is of a later date (could be a re-use of a much earlier photograph). Date: circa 1910

Canada - Toronto - YMCA Building
Canada - Toronto - Central YMCA Building Date: circa 1910s

Israel - Church on Mount Tabor in Lower Galilee, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley. This postcards shows the Church of Transfiguration at the summit

Accession of Edward VII
King Edward VII left Osborne House on the morning of 23rd January, following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria the day before

YMCA Fund to commemorate Womens War Work
Postcard detailing the YMCA Fund to commemorate Womens War Work in Munitions factories during World War One and to raise money for rest rooms and factory canteens Date: circa 1917

Gruner Wald Hospice / Rest Home
The Green Forest Hospice / Christian Rest Home (Hospiz Gruner Wald) at Bad Herrenalb - Black Forest, Germany Date: circa 1920s

The Flying Trunk -- a story by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a young man flies to Turkey in a trunk and visits the Sultans daughter. 20th century

Barbados - Tomb of Ferdinando Paleologus
St Johns Churchyard, Barbados - The rather remarkable tomb of Ferdinando Paleologus (?-1678). Paleologus was a descendent of the brother of the great Emperor Constantine XI

Hans Andersen Statue
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN his statue in Kongens Have, Kjobenhavn : to the Danes, he is not Hans but H.C. Andersen. Date: 1805 - 1875

China / Missionaries
A traditional Chinese cartoon showing Christian missionaries gouging out the eyes of Chinese converts

Ugly Duckling 1
The ugly duckling with the other ducklings

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