Tag: churches

• Update to Lost Churches of Johannesburg

  

  Usually, around this time of the year, I’d be publishing a new post of some description. It seems a post a year is about my average given the amount of work that goes into them. Of course, the algorithms and digital media experts would all disagree with that strategy, but I don’t really care much…

  Marc Latilla

  September 23, 2024

  Johannesburg

  churches, Early Johannesburg, history of johannesburg, synagogues

• History of Fordsburg

  

  Fordsburg was established in 1888 on land that had once been part of the farm Langlaagte (more on the history of the early farms HERE). It was owned and laid out by the private firm of Ford & Jeppe Estate Company who had acquired land to the east and west of the new mining camp.…

  Marc Latilla

  November 21, 2019

  Johannesburg

  Avalon, bioscopes, churches, cinemas, Doppers, Early Johannesburg, Fordsburg, history of johannesburg, Lyric, Majestic, Market Square, Maronite, Mine houses, Mint Road, Mynpacht Hotel, Octavia Hill, Orient Hotel, Oriental Plaza, Planet, Rose building, Sacks Hotel, Standard Bank, Tramway Hotel

• Churches of Johannesburg Pt.2

  

  This piece covers churches built up to around 1955 that are still standing. The first piece covered the ‘Lost churches’ and can be read HERE. I’ve broken it up into two sections: The first section covers those that are no longer used as places of worship starting with the oldest. The second section covers those…

  Marc Latilla

  December 19, 2016

  Johannesburg

  Apostolic Faith Mission, Baptist church, Catholic churches, churches, Congregational church, Doppers, Dutch Reform Church, Early Johannesburg, Gordon Leith, history of johannesburg, Jeppestown, Jewish history, Kenilworth, Lions Shul, Methodist Church, Presbyterian church, Rosettenville, Sir Herbert Baker, Spiritualist church, Theophile Schaerer, Turffontein, Wesleyan, Wolmarans Street Synagogue, Yeoville

• Lost churches of early Johannesburg

  

  This is part one of a piece on lost churches in early Johannesburg. Part two will focus on old churches that are still standing but no longer used as originally intended (and a few that are, but only the old ones up to the 1950s…). For continuity, I have included the existing version of a…

  Marc Latilla

  June 16, 2015

  Johannesburg

  African Methodist Episcopal Church, Apostolic Faith Mission SA, Baptist church, Beit Street, Braamfontein, Catholic churches, Chassidic Synagogue, churches, Doornfontein, Dutch Reform Church, Early Johannesburg, Ebenezer church, Eloff Street, Fordsburg, Harrow Road, Jewish history, Maronite, mosques, native missions, Ponovez Synagogue, Presbyterian church, Rev. Darragh, Rosebank Union Church, Sivewright Avenue, synagogues, Talmud Torah Synagogue, Wesleyan