St.Saviour's Church on South Sreet was completed in 1866.
Architect/Designer: George Edmund Street,
who also designed the London Law Courts in the Strand & the Diocese of Oxford.
This church has many mosaic art on the wall telling Christian stories.
Stain glass windows and three organs are something to notice,too.
Nice arches and wooden roof.
And it has a statue of Mary in a dark brown material which look like a big piece of chocolate.
The church has ten bells in the tower, added in 1875. Still functional.
The church was damaged during the War and was restored in the 90s.
The church is often used for various music and arts events by various organisations.
Organ recital occasionally took place during lunch hour during weekday.
A guy who works there said
they do not have Sunday school as most churchgoers are senior citizens.
This country now has fewer and fewer schools run by Christian churches due to political (over)-correctness. What a pity! (Hong Kong has been lucky in this matter)
This church do Mass daily. More often than many other churches.
It is under Church of English but with heavy Catholic basis.
The version of English translation Bible it is using now is the Jerusalem Bible.
Although there are a few copies of other versions in the church library
at the end of its South Aisle, including King James Bible (Collins) I am like a tourist.
The pew sheet/leaflet of last week Mass seems simpler
than other similar churches I visited before.
Post cards are available.
P.S. (Some words have special meaning in Christian culture)
Mass is the specific event where Christianity is preached to church-goers, ceremonies to be held, like the communion, to repeat the symbolic body & blood with bread/biscuit & wine/grape juice , hymns to be sung....etc.
I have previously check the word "pew" which means the long bench in church.
Pew Sheet means the piece of information for people to read on the pew during the Mass.
These words are yet to be looked up from dictionary:
Denomination
Antiphon
Collect
Offertory gifts
Postlude
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