13/02/2012

City of Saints

I've just tripped over, in the Google way, a puff for a building development in Grahamstown, South Africa.
With its elegant English heritage and beautifully preserved architecture, Grahamstown is one of the best-preserved Victorian colonial towns in the world. It is also the City of Saints, a diocese of the Anglican Church in South Africa and home to many faiths, whose church spires and buildings of worship define the skyline. But Grahamstown is better known as a centre of education, arts and culture, the host of the popular annual National Arts Festival and home to some of the country’s finest institutions of learning, including Rhodes University, St Andrews College, The Diocesan School for Girls, Graeme College and Kingswood College.
What I especially liked was the conjunction of  '... the City of Saints, a diocese of the Anglican Church in South Africa and home to many faiths, whose church spires and buildings of worship define the skyline.'

Could such a place be really possible - Saints, Anglicans, and many faiths all enjoying the South African sun together?

Perhaps only in a sales brochure. Though the housing development is called Lindisfarne so, perhaps, anything's possible.



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