Church in San Francisco

elaine: 8th Sep 2005 - 07:36 GMT

i don't think i have seen that church in the flesh, but i am pretty sure i have seen it in films and tv loads

Peter: 8th Sep 2005 - 13:17 GMT

i always notice that here in nyc, too... when i come across old buildings nestled between new ones, and theyre usually churches too.

Jamie: 8th Sep 2005 - 13:23 GMT

The church where i was baptised. It was a really old church, hundreds of years old, right in the city centre. They knocked it down and bult an office block. That area of town is all bars and clubs these days. They called the office block Churchgate, and built a new, smaller, modern, church next to it. I guess that was part of the deal.

Peter: 8th Sep 2005 - 13:27 GMT

that sounds eerily familiar:

"...From the very beginning, the Citicorp Center (today, the Citigroup Center) in New York City was an engineering challenge. When planning for the skyscraper began in the early 1970s, the northwest corner of the proposed building site was occupied by St. Peter's Lutheran Church. The church allowed Citicorp to build the skyscraper under one condition: a new church would have to be built on the same corner, with no connection to the Citicorp building and no columns passing through it..."

from: www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/citicorp.html

joey: 23rd Sep 2007 - 23:10 GMT

why that is st. patrick's on mission street; www.stpatricksf.org/