Sentence examples for principal church from inspiring English sources
The principal church of a big monastery also assumed the same name.
Soufflot was entrusted in 1755 with the design of Sainte-Geneviève, which was intended to be the principal church of Paris.
In the 5th century St . Patrickestablished his principal church in Ireland on the hill fort site, which later became a medieval ecclesiastical capital.
Located on Amsterdam Avenue in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, St. John's is one of the world's largest cathedrals and the principal church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Though intended as the principal church in Paris, it was renamed the Panthéon by the Revolutionary authorities, who made it the last resting place for heroes of the French Revolution.
Perhaps the pope, a connoisseur and patron of art and architecture, was swayed by the fact that Lippi was then in the middle of painting a groundbreaking cycle of frescoes in Prato's principal church, St . Stephen
In its heyday Ninfa had 1,300 inhabitants and seven churches, bearing the names of the seven principal churches of Rome.
Two other composers inextricably linked with Hamburg are Georg Philipp Telemann, who became director of music in the city's principal churches in 1721 at the age of 40, and his godson Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Telemann's friend JS Bach.
The communes took responsibility not only for the palazzi comunali, or city halls, and other communal buildings but also for the building, interior furbishing, and maintenance of their cathedrals and other principal churches (in these, sometimes specifically excluding any ecclesiastical participation in the work).
Finally, in Leipzig, in his last decade, he withdrew as much as he could from his responsibilities as cantor of the St. Thomas School and director of music at Leipzig's principal churches, to create grand summations of musical science in "The Art of Fugue" and the B minor Mass.
His predecessor, Johan Kuhnau, had already noted that "visitors and distinguished gentlemen certainly want to hear something fine in the principal churches".
