The Circular Church
A Diverse Community
Building and Graveyard
History : The members of Circular Congregational Church are proud to be one of the oldest continuously worshipping congregations in the South. Among highlights of our history are: Charles Towne's original settlers founded this protestant, or dissenting, church about 1681. The graveyard is the city's oldest burial grounds with monuments dating from 1696. The first meeting house on this site gave Meeting Street its name. The third structure here, a vast, circular hall built in 1804, burned in 1861. Bricks from "Old Circular" were used in building the present sanctuary in 1890.
I'd love to visit it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate. Very interesting reading the history of this churches past congregations.
ReplyDeleteImpressive history, and equally impressive architecture.
ReplyDeleteThat is an unusual stained glass design.
ReplyDeleteWe have round church in Mainz, too. (I always thought it was a gasometer...)
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, there's a recent architectural trend in old folks' homes to build them with curved walls and no corners to prevent the old gents from peeing in them...
An unusual design.
ReplyDeletereally cool!
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that you'd take a detailed shot of that window Kate, it's a Celtic design yes? Really beautifully design.
ReplyDeleteInteresting history and nice to see their traditions are still alive!
ReplyDeleteOh this is lovely, and so timely. I enjoyed the historical tidbits tremendously.
ReplyDeleteRound and round we go - especially at Communion! I like it! And a fine historical building/congregation!
ReplyDeleteLove that design and the windows.
ReplyDeleteNice stained glass.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of history here and there's still more to come.
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