Toronto Churches 1

St. John the Baptist

July 26, 2004, Toronto, Canada

St. John the Baptist Norway, Anglican, at Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, NORWAY

THIS CHURCH, DESIGNED BY C.J. GIBSON, WAS BUILT IN 1893 AND ENLARGED BY C.D. LENNOX IN 1915. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES ARE A HIGH-PEAKED, HAMMER-BEAMED ROOF AND STAINED GLASS FROM THE ORIGINAL CHURCH IN AN EAST WINDOW. MEETINGS FIRST BEGAN IN 1850 AND, WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PARISH IN 1853, A SMALL WOODEN SCHOOL HOUSE WAS MOVED HERE AND USED AS A CHURCH. THE BELL, STILL IN USE, WAS INSTALLED AND THE CHURCH AND CEMETERY CONSECRATED BY BISHOP STRACHAN IN 1855. MANY UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS AND OTHER EARLY SETTLERS ARE BURIED HERE. ST. JOHN'S FOUNDED A NUMBER OF PARISHES IN EAST TORONTO.

TORONTO HISTORICAL BOARD
1977

Churches in Toronto 1

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Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, Toronto. March 2004.	St. Basils Church, St. Michaels College, Toronto. March 2004.	Church at corner of Bloor Street and Avenue Road, Toronto. September 1999.
Knox Presbyterian Church on Spadina Avenue, Toronto. May 1998.	Roman Catholic Church on Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto. May 2001.	Parkdale Neighborhood Church on Queen Street West in Parkdale. May 2001.
Hungarian Reformed Evangelical Christian Church. July 2001.	St Georgs German Lutheran Church on College Street, Toronto. May 1999.	Church at Trinity Square, behind Eaton Center, Toronto. May 1998.
Anglican church in Parkdale. May 2001.	St Patrick's Catholic Church "the Redemptorists". July 2001.	Gospel Light Tabernacle Church of God Inc. on Queen Street West in Parkdale. May 2001.
Sign on side of Salvation Army building on Queen Street West. May 2001.	Church of the Resurrection. July 26, 2004.	Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church. July 26, 2004.
Danforth Gospel Temple. July 26, 2004.	Holy Name Catholic Church. July 26, 2004.	St. Barnabas Anglican. July 26, 2004.
Eastminster United Church. July 26, 2004.	Danforth Baptist Church. July 26, 2004.	Don Mills United Church. July 26, 2004.
Holy Cross Church. July 26, 2004.	Bethany Baptist Church. July 26, 2004.	Church of St. Clement, Riverdale. July 26, 2004.
St. John the Baptist Norway Church. July 26, 2004.

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“In biology, biodiversity means health. In religion, mutual tolerance in the sine qua non of peace. God must surely love pluralism; S/He made us all so different.”
Tom Harpur, Toronto Star, August 4, 2002.

“Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.”
(unknown)

“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan.

“If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.”
Steve Allen.

“It was, of course, a lie which you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as science can reveal it.”
Albert Einstein.