Gleaming golden onion-shaped domes are not common sights on the Highveld – or anywhere else in South Africa, for that matter. The ones that caught my eye while driving from Pretoria to Johannesburg on the N1 highway one day belong to the parish church of St Sergius of...
Echoes of a Victorian theological controversy which played out in the British Natal colony are heard in the Presbyterian Church of St Saviour’s in Midrand, Gauteng. In 1853 Anglican divine and mathematician John William Colenso was appointed Bishop of Natal by...
Travelling north on the N1 highway from Johannesburg to Pretoria a sight can be seen which might have students and lovers of architecture rubbing their eyes – a three-quarter replica of the famous Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, stands on a rise to the east with...
