Monday, June 6, 2011

Bleak days

Another bleak, rainy day in Cape Town. This is the Dutch Reformed Church at the top of Carr Hill in Wynberg. It was re-built on old foundations in 1897 (the original church having been established around about the 1830s). In 1881, the Dutch Reformed Synod decided it would like to keep the congregation pure white, so it built the Sending Kerk (Mission Church) nearby for "coloured" folk. Of course, today things are different, but it does leave a bit of a bitter taste.

4 comments:

  1. I used to live around the corner from there...didn't know that church had such an unpleasant history!

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  2. Beautiful building, ugly history.
    Jane x

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  3. It is a very unfortunate part of our past, but it does give us a very interesting history.

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  4. Bleak days indeed, but thankfully things have changed.

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