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Report of northern lights over Nuremberg on January 17, 1572. (1572).

Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e3369808-d30c-436c-aebc-135b3a80886f

#eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #sky #villages #protestant-reformation #comets #art #publicdomain

Report of northern lights over Nuremberg on January 17, 1572. (1572).

Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e3369808-d30c-436c-aebc-135b3a80886f

#eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #sky #villages #protestant-reformation #comets #art #publicdomain

#PROTESTANT #WOMEN IN #GERMANY
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Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

https://forward.com/news/834539/texas-bible-curriculum/

Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

https://forward.com/news/834539/texas-bible-curriculum/

Anybody can say they #believe in #god: am a #christian, #catholic, #baptist, #protestant, #methodist. But #actions speak louder than #words. Are you doing? How are you resisting?

Anybody can say they #believe in #god: am a #christian, #catholic, #baptist, #protestant, #methodist. But #actions speak louder than #words. Are you doing? How are you resisting?

DEATH TO HERETICS

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2137068/death-to-heretics

DEATH TO HERETICS

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2137068/death-to-heretics

Immaculate Conception

This is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was/is free from original sin from the moment of her conception. It’s 1 of the 4 Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. The feast day of the Immaculate Conception is December 8.

It wasn’t defined as a dogma until 1854, by Pope Pius IX in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus. While the Immaculate Conception asserts Mary’s freedom from original sin, the Council of Trent (1545-1563) had previously affirmed her freedom from personal sin non-dogmatically.

Many Protestant churches reject this doctrine as unscriptural. Some Anglicans accept this as a pious devotion. The teaching of the Immaculate Conception among Oriental Orthodoxy varies. The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church & the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church accept it.

Anne (who eventually becomes a saint), the mom of the Virgin Mary & Jesus’ maternal grandma, shows up for the 1st time in the 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of James. Anne & her husband Joachim (who also became a saint) were infertile. But God heard their prayers. Mary was then conceived.

Within the Gospel of James, Mary’s conception happens without physical sexual intercourse between Anne & Joachim. This is to demonstrate Mary’s purity. The Eastern Orthodox Church believes that Mary was conceived by her parents like we all were.

Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, & Cyrus of Jerusalem came up with the idea of Mary as the new Eve. While yet immaculate & incorrupt, she wasn’t subject to original sin. Ephraim the Syrian said she was as innocent as Eve before the Fall.

Ambrose asserted Mary’s incorruptibility, attributing her virginity to grace & immunity from sin. Severus, the Bishop of Antioch, agreed to affirm Mary’s purity & immaculateness. John of Damascus extended the supernatural influence of God to Mary’s parents. This suggests they were purified by the Holy Spirit during her generation. According to John of Damascus, even the material of Mary’s origin was deemed pure & holy.

By the 4th century, the idea of Mary being free from sin was more widespread. But her being free from original sin, passed down from the OGs Adam & Eve, raised questions. The question became more acute when the feast of Mary’s conception brought the objection that, as adult spicy time is sinful, & to celebrate Mary’s conception was to celebrate a sinful act. (Let’s get 1 thing straight: God doesn’t make married adult spicy time between 2 consenting MARRIED adults a sin! He (God) in fact encourages a healthy marital sex life. “Be fruitful & multiply,” ring any bells! And how exactly do we multiply? This is the conclusion of our TED talk.)

The feast of Mary’s conception came from the Eastern Church in the 7th century. It reached England in the 11th century. From there, it spread out to Europe. It was given official approval in 1477 & extended to the whole church in 1693. The word “immaculate” wasn’t used until 1854.

This doctrine caused a “civil war” between the Franciscans & the Dominicans during the Middle Ages. The Franciscan “Scotists” were in favor & the Dominican “Thomists” against it.

The English ecclesiastic & scholar Eadmer (circa 1060-circa 1126) reasoned that Mary might have been conceived without original sin because of God’s omnipotence. It was also appropriate for her role as Mother of God. Potuit, decuit, fecit: “it was possible, it was fitting, therefore it was done.”

Others, like St. Bernard of Clairvaux (of the St. Bernard dog breed fame, 1090-1153) & Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) objected because if Mary were free of original sin at her superfluous conception. Then she would have no need of redemption. Thus making Christ’s saving redemption unneeded.

In 1439, the Council of Basel, in schism with Pope Eugene IV (who lived at the Council of Florence), declared the Immaculate Conception a “pious opinion” consistent with faith & Scripture. The Council of Trent made no explicit declaration on the topic. But did exempt her from the universality of original sin.

They also affirmed that she remained free from all stains of sin during her life, even the venial ones. By 1571, the revised Roman Breviary set out an elaborate celebration of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8.

Some devotees go so far as to hold that Anne had conceived Mary just by kissing her husband. They also believe that (St.) Anne’s dad & grandma had likewise been conceived without spicy adult time. However, (St.) Bridget of Sweden (circa 1303-1373) told how Mary herself had revealed to her that Anne & Joachim conceived their daughter through a spicy adult time, which was sinless because it was pure & free of sexual lust.

In the 16th & 17th centuries, Spain exploded with Immaculatist devotion. This led the Habsburg monarchs to demand the Holy See elevate this belief to the status of dogma.

In France in 1830, Catherine Laboure (May 2, 1806-December 31, 1876) saw a vision of Mary standing on a globe while a voice commanded her to have a medal made in imitation of what she saw. The medal said, “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee,” which was a confirmation from Mary herself that she was conceived without sin. Laboure’s vision marked the beginning of a great 19th-century Marian revival.

In 1849, Pope Pius IX issued the encyclical Ubi primum, soliciting the bishops of the church for their views on whether the doctrine should be defined as dogma. 90% of those who responded were supportive. Although the Archbishop of Paris, Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, warned that the Immaculate Conception “could be proved neither from the Scriptures nor from tradition.”

In 1854, the Immaculate Conception dogma was proclaimed with the bull Ineffabilis Deus. Ineffabilis Deus found the Immaculate Conception in the Ark of Salvation (Noah’s Ark), Jacob’s Ladder, the Burning Bush at Sinai, the Enclosed Garden from the Song of Song/Song of Solomon, & many more passages.

The pope’s advisors singled out 2 Bible passages: Genesis 3:15 – “I’ll put enmity between you & the woman.” This is a prophecy which reached fulfillment in the figure of the Woman in Revelation, crowned with stars & trampling the Dragon underfoot. Luke 1:28 – Specifically the phrase “full of grace” by which Gabriel greeted Mary was another reference to her Immaculate Conception: “she was never subject to the curse & was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction.”

Four years after the proclamation of the dogma, in 1858, the young Bernadette Soubirous (of the Lourdes grotto fame) said that Mary appeared to her at Lourdes in southern France, to announce that she was the Immaculate Conception. The Catholic Church later endorsed the apparition as authentic. There are other “approved” Marian apparitions in which Mary identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. For example, Our Lady of Gietrzwald in 1877, Poland.

The feast day of the Immaculate Conception is December 8. The Roman Missal (which contains texts & rubrics (a set of rules)) & the Roman Rite Liturgy of the Hours (a set of Catholic prayers) include references to Mary’s Immaculate Conception in the feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Its celebration seems to have begun in the Eastern church in the 7th century & may have spread to Ireland by the 8th century. The earliest well-attested record in the Western Church is from England early in the 11th century. It was suppressed there after the Norman Conquest (1066). The 1st thorough exposition of the doctrine was a response to this suppression. It continued to spread through the 15th century despite accusations of heresy from the Thomists & strong objections from several prominent theologians.

Beginning around 1140, St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Yes, like the dog breed. That’s where the dog breed got its name.), a Cistercian monk (This is a religious order of monks & nuns that branched off from the Benedictines.), wrote to Lyons Cathedral to express his surprise & dissatisfaction that it had recently begun to be observed there.

But in 1477, Pope Lixtus IV, who was a devoted Immaculist, put it on the Roman calendar via the papal bull called Cum praexcelsa. In 1481 & 1483, Pope Sixtus IV published 2 more bulls which prohibited anyone from preaching or teaching against the Immaculate Conception, or for either side to accuse the other of heresy, under threats of excommunication.

Pope Pius V kept the Feast on the Tridentine calendar. But suppressed the word “Immaculate.” Pope Gregory XV, in 1622, prohibited any public or private assertion that Mary was conceived in sin. In 1624, Pope Urban VIII allowed the Franciscans to establish a military order dedicated to the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo & Eritrean Orthodox Tewahed Churches believe in the Immaculate Conception of the Theotokos. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on August 13 (Nehasie 7).

Eastern Orthodoxy does not exempt Mary from original sin. But they do affirm Mary’s purity & preservation from personal sin.

In the mid-1800s, some Catholics who were unable to accept the doctrine of papal infallibility left the Roman Church & formed the Old Catholic Church. They reject the Immaculate Conception.

Protestants overwhelmingly condemned the announcement of Ineffabilis Deus. Protestants teach that Mary was a sinner, saved through grace, like everyone else.

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The comet that appeared over Augsburg in November, 1577. (1577).

Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/14f2d55d-d158-401b-8f5f-a378cf7bd1ee

#eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #buildings #protestant-reformation #comets #art #publicdomain

The comet that appeared over Augsburg in November, 1577. (1577).

Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/14f2d55d-d158-401b-8f5f-a378cf7bd1ee

#eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #buildings #protestant-reformation #comets #art #publicdomain

Hi Fediverse,

I often feel alone in the way I experience faith and I would love to find people who share the same ideas about God.

I'm christian, that means my God is crucified and feeble. I'm reformed, that means I wouldn't trust one sole human telling me how I should believe.

Call me liberal or neo-orthodox. For me, believing is searching for God.

Let's chat about that ?

#faith #protestant #chrétien #christian #religion #église #foi

"It's evolving, but in reverse"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2072971/it-s-evolving-but-in-reverse

"It's evolving, but in reverse"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2072971/it-s-evolving-but-in-reverse

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Întrebări la care niciun protestant nu va putea răspunde "Şi Eu îţi zic ţie, că tu eşti Petru şi pe această piatră voi zidi Biserica Mea şi porţile iadului nu o vor birui." (Matei 6:18) 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/b6vq3 👈 #Anatema #Biblie #Biserică #botezulpruncilor #doctrinadenominațiunilor #Dumnezeu #FecioaraMaria #protestant #SinoadeleEcumenice #SinoduluidelaCartagina
https://c.aparatorul.md/b6vq3

#PhotoMay2026
Jour 7 : ancien

La plus ancienne représentation d'un temple #protestant aux #ArchivesDeLyon : il s'agit du Temple de Paradis construit en 1564, qui était situé à #lyon dans la presqu'île entre la rue Tupin et la rue Ferrandière.
Le #dessin est de Jean Perrissin, peintre et architecte.
Cote 3GG 86

#JeudiManuscrit #archives #archivistodon #drawing

#PhotoMay2026
Jour 7 : ancien

La plus ancienne représentation d'un temple #protestant aux #ArchivesDeLyon : il s'agit du Temple de Paradis construit en 1564, qui était situé à #lyon dans la presqu'île entre la rue Tupin et la rue Ferrandière.
Le #dessin est de Jean Perrissin, peintre et architecte.
Cote 3GG 86

#JeudiManuscrit #archives #archivistodon #drawing

Întrebări la care niciun protestant nu va putea răspunde "Şi Eu îţi zic ţie, că tu eşti Petru şi pe această piatră voi zidi Biserica Mea şi porţile iadului nu o vor birui." (Matei 6:18) 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/czcta 👈 #Anatema #Biblie #Biserică #botezulpruncilor #doctrinadenominațiunilor #Dumnezeu #FecioaraMaria #protestant #SinoadeleEcumenice #SinoduluidelaCartagina
https://c.aparatorul.md/czcta

I swear, I look up one video on #youtube about #hispanic #Christmas traditions and now every other video on my feed is a long confessional from someone who converted to #Catholicism about why the #Protestant denominations are wrong about the #Eucharist. Why do I continue to click on these videos? Why am I suddenly drawn to the #magisterium and the #apostolic succession and the early Church fathers? Why does YouTube want me to become a #Catholic?

I swear, I look up one video on #youtube about #hispanic #Christmas traditions and now every other video on my feed is a long confessional from someone who converted to #Catholicism about why the #Protestant denominations are wrong about the #Eucharist. Why do I continue to click on these videos? Why am I suddenly drawn to the #magisterium and the #apostolic succession and the early Church fathers? Why does YouTube want me to become a #Catholic?

#Jésus : "le consolateur, l'Esprit-Saint, que le Père enverra en mon nom, vous enseignera toutes choses, et vous rappellera tout ce que je vous ai dit"

Faut vraiment avoir un Q.i d'oursin pour ne pas vouloir être enseigné par #Dieu lui-même.

Gloire à Dieu qui donne aux hommes tant de bonnes choses.

#chrétien #christian #god #protestant #trump

Întrebări la care niciun protestant nu va putea răspunde "Şi Eu îţi zic ţie, că tu eşti Petru şi pe această piatră voi zidi Biserica Mea şi porţile iadului nu o vor birui." (Matei 6:18) 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/vudkn 👈 #Anatema #Biblie #Biserică #botezulpruncilor #doctrinadenominațiunilor #Dumnezeu #FecioaraMaria #protestant #SinoadeleEcumenice #SinoduluidelaCartagina
https://c.aparatorul.md/vudkn

Pope John Paul II stated in 1983 that, under Catholic doctrine, excommunications lapse automatically upon a person’s death, so Martin Luther’s 1521 ban was no longer in effect and should not hinder ecumenical dialogue.

#theology #Catholic #Protestant

Pope John Paul II stated in 1983 that, under Catholic doctrine, excommunications lapse automatically upon a person’s death, so Martin Luther’s 1521 ban was no longer in effect and should not hinder ecumenical dialogue.

#theology #Catholic #Protestant

Întrebări la care niciun protestant nu va putea răspunde "Şi Eu îţi zic ţie, că tu eşti Petru şi pe această piatră voi zidi Biserica Mea şi porţile iadului nu o vor birui." (Matei 6:18) 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/pox3k 👈 #Anatema #Biblie #Biserică #botezulpruncilor #doctrinadenominațiunilor #Dumnezeu #FecioaraMaria #protestant #SinoadeleEcumenice #SinoduluidelaCartagina
https://c.aparatorul.md/pox3k

RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldguycrusty/116352717325165837

..on Easter he says this.

How does this vulgarity, belligerence, sacrilege, even heresy, not rattle the 'god'-fearing #christofascist #fundamentalist #white #christian #protestant #christianNationalist #GOP white-shoes-on #Easter types?

"George, what the fuck are you talking about"

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/1917580/george-what-the-fuck-are-you-talking-about

"George, what the fuck are you talking about"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1917579/george-what-the-fuck-are-you-talking-about

Die Laudate-Häus: the thread about the German-speaking congregation of Edinburgh

Looking at a property listing, I thought “why settle for a single mansard1 roof when you can have a double mansard split across 3 levels?“

1. A mansard roof is a type of roof with two different pitches; a steep lower face which meets a shallow upper face, to create space within for dwelling. ↩︎

This curious-looking block of flats is Homeroyal House a retirement community built on the site of the Argyle Place Church in Marchmont. This unfortunate building burned down in 1974 during renovations when an open flame lamp set fire to paint. This congregation had been founded in 1877 as a United Presbyterian Church (one of the various Presbyterian churches in Victorian Scotland and the third largest by size after the established Kirk and the Free Kirk) for “the use of those interested in… a Congregation which should use unfermented wine at the Communion“. The building was completed and opened in 1880 to the designs of the architect Alex McTavish. The U.P. Church merged with (most of) the Free Church in 1900 to form the United Free Church of Scotland. In 1929 the U.F. Church in turn re-united with the Church of Scotland from which it had historically dissented and its churches became part of the fold of the Kirk.

In Victorian Edinburgh, the Kirk, the Free Kirk and the U.F. Kirk frequently occupied the same parishes, resulting in a triplication of churches by 1929 when most had merged back into the Church of Scotland. This, combined with a long term decline in Sunday church-going in the second half of the 20th century resulted in the need to consolidate parishes. In Marchmont, Argyle Place congregation merged with nearby St. Catherine’s Church in the Grange (which had started life with the Free Kirk) in 1968 and was all set to relocate to the former buildings after the renovations were complete. The fire put paid to that plan and instead the latter building became the new home of the united St. Catherine’s Argyle congregation. I suppose the 7-storey corner tower on Homeroyal House kind of echoes the former steeple tower and the dropping roofline too is a nod to what was there before. The dormers in the mansard are actually quite a vernacular tenement roof style (balconies and double storey excepted!).

Just over the road from Homeroyal is Edinburgh’s German Speaking Congregation: the Laudate Haus in reference to the Laudate Psalms. It is known as the Evangelische Gemeinde Deutscher Sprache in its own language, note that it does not refer to itself as a Church but rather as a Congregation. It is also referred to as German Speaking in recognition that its members share that language but not necessarily that nationality. I will admit that this is one of my absolute favourite little bits of modernism around town, very understated and plain but beautifully leafy and with a thoroughly impressive stained glass curtain wall.

The abstract stained glass is quite spectacular when seen from the inside and is by Scottish modern artist George Garson who specialised in mosaic, stained glass and concrete relief panels.

And what good bit of mid-century is complete without a cantilever?

The foundation stone was laid on 20th August 1966, with an inscription from Jeremiah 22:29 reading “O Land, Land, Land, Höre Des Herrn Wort” (“Oh Earth, Earth, Earth, hear the Word of the Lord“) and was completed in 1967 by local practice Reiach & Hall to original designs by German architect Alfred Schildt. It had cost £42,000 to build, with £30,000 coming from the Protestant Church of Germany (EKD) and the remainder raised through donations from other German speaking churches and congregations and the members in Edinburgh itself. It was dedicated in a ceremony on October 14th that year. At 3PM an English-speaking service of thanks took place in Argyle Place Church – Dr Alex King of the Kirk’s Overseas Department being a prominent supporter of the scheme – before moving over the road where Schildt handed over the keys to Pastor Wischmann of the German Church Council, who presented them to Pastor Schwesig to open the door. At 4PM a German-language service was held, with the congregation standing for the occasion as there were as yet no chairs in the church!

My thanks to the Rev. Stuart Irvin, previously minister of St. Catherine’s Argyle, for the picture below from the back of the Laudate House. This was taken not long after completion in 1967 and before Argyle Place Church, whose steeple we can see in the background, succumbed to the fire in 1974.

Edinburgh has been home to a German-speaking Protestant congregation since the late 1850s. The Reverend Herr J. Blumenreich secured halls for worship for “The German Evangelical Church of Edinburgh-Leith” in Queen Street in 1862 from the then United Presbyterian Church (who would found Argyle Place Church 15 years later); these halls were part of its college and Blumenreich was their Hebrew Tutor. At this time there were 800 Germans living in Edinburgh and Leith, and his services attracted upwards of 100.

Johann Friedrich Blumenreich was born into a Jewish family from Schwerin in Prussian Poland in 1820 and converted to the Lutheran Church in 1843 during his apprenticeship as a bookbinder. Intending to become a Christian missionary amongst the Jewish diaspora in England he arrived in London in 1844 via Rotterdam on the ship Giraffe and is recorded signing his details as an Alien. Being unable to speak English he did not succeed in his chosen path and instead fell back to bookbinding, during which time he was then able to learn English. He came to Edinburgh as a missionary in the early 1850s and ministered in the Cowgate and the Canongate, where immigrants to the city often found themselves. He is recorded in 1856 taking part in the annual meeting of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Foreigners and is advertised as offering German and Hebrew classes to the general public. In 1858 he was ordained as a minister within the U.P. Church. He was particularly concerned with the religious instruction of foreigners in his adopted city and was supported by the U.P. Church in circulating printed tracts and scriptures in foreign languages and in preaching in German. It is noted in 1861 that many Germans in the city were occupied as “workers in Bohemian glass“.

The German congregation built its own church under Blumenreich’s guidance, completed in 1881 on Rodney Street (now the Bellevue Chapel) to the designs of James B. Wemyss of Leith who described it as “bare and uninteresting“. The German speaking population of Edinburgh was growing at this time, with skilled workers drawn to the city by the construction of the Forth Bridge and also its booming printing and bookbinding industries.

Blumenreich retired as minister in 1885 on account of his failing health and died of apoplexy (a stroke) in 1894 aged 70, his occupation at the time of death being “Clergyman of the German Church” and residence 29 Gayfield Square. His wife Janet Holborn predeceased him, dying in 1886. Of his children, William would become the German pastor in Dundee. In 1907, the Edinburgh & Leith post office directory lists the Pastor in Edinburgh as Friedrich Reimer and the Seemanspastor (sailor’s pastor) as Ulrich Thiesen. The Church officer was Otto Bollenbacher of 32 Hay Terrace (Broughton Road).

The congregation disbanded at the start of the First World War; all German men in the country were interred as aliens and the women and children had to return to Germany. The vacant church was taken over by The Christian Brethren, assisted in this by one of the former congregation, the tragic Adolf Theurer. It did not publicly reconvene until over 30 years later when it began to meet again in 1947 as The German Speaking Congregation in Edinburgh in the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church at Dean Bridge. (This building itself had an interesting subsequent history – in 1957 the insides were taken over by the South of Scotland Electricity Board and filled with high voltage transformer equipment, becoming a very discreet National Grid substation. It was only recently converted back to ecclesiastical use.)

There were around 2,500 Germans in the Edinburgh area at this time; former Prisoners of War, Jews who had escaped Germany before the war, an influx of younger woman who had been brought to the country as domestic helps and women who had married British servicemen and returned home with them. Seeking a permanent home, in 1953 the former Glendinnings Dance School in a converted villa at 1 Chalmers Crescent in Marchmont was bought by the Congregation and overhauled to become its first Laudate Haus.

The villa became the manse for the pastor – Rev. Dietrich Ritschl – and the dance hall was used for services. By the early 1960s it became apparent that the building was suffering extensively from dry rot and that it would not be economical to repair it. The pastor and congregation removed to 92 Morningside Drive while the new church was being built, services being held at the Argyle Place Church in the interim.

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