Sentence examples for building of churches from inspiring English sources

After 1570 Palladio's life was centred on the building of churches in Venice.

We reject the building of churches in Saudi Arabia, not having been assaulted by anyone.

He founded bishoprics and abbeys, made the building of churches mandatory, and established the practice of tithing.

Macquarie also began a program of public works, including the building of churches, hospitals, barracks, schools, and courthouses, and laid out several parks in and around the city.

In the summer of 2010 he reacted to plans to build a mosque in lower Manhattan by saying that American Muslims should not be allowed to do so until Saudi Arabia permitted the building of churches and synagogues.

Egyptian laws impose more onerous requirements on the building of churches than on mosques, and attempts to get around the process to build new churches have often set off sectarian clashes.

THIS 175-ACRE COMMUNITY of more than 800 houses and 11 apartment buildings, of churches, parks and storefronts, began in 1909 when the Russell Sage Foundation commissioned the architect Grosvenor Atterbury and the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to plan a new town on a plot in Queens.

By the way, as Merrick improves mentally, if not physically, he takes up building models of churches (religion, again), and eventually completes a small-scale replica of St. Phillip's Church.

Then everyone returned to assigned tasks, including a single city sanitation worker, diligently pushing a broom past the blown-out buildings of Church Street.

Concern for the appearance of the city had long been manifest in Europe, in the imperial tradition of court and palace and in the central plazas and great buildings of church and state.

Their patronage and commissions resulted in the building of many churches and in the creation of the so-called Stroganov school of icon painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.