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Damage to the St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston suffered during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Bringing out religious statues from St Pauls Catholic Church in Dallington".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Bringing out religious statues from St Pauls Catholic Church in Dallington".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Bringing out religious statues from St Pauls Catholic Church in Dallington".
The St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston was cordoned off due to damage suffered during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston was cordoned off due to damage suffered during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck mid-Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010 broke the tip of the spire of the St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Leeston
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The intersection of Aberdeen and Manchester Street. Straight ahead is St Mary's Catholic Church and a demolition site is on the right.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The pinnacle of the steeple of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Temuka was displaced by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the Canterbury region the previous day".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The pinnacle of the steeple of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Temuka was displaced by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the Canterbury region the previous day".
A digitally manipulated image of the dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christcurch, after the 6.3 magnitude quake on 22 February 2011.
When The Angels Fall
Take your father's cross
Gently from the wall
A shadow still remaining
See the churches fall
In mighty arcs of sound
And all that they're containing
Yet all the rugged souls
Looking for their lost homes
Shuffle to...
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament after the dome was removed. Large cracks are visible in the walls and in the dome's supporting structure, and the facade is supported by haybales and shipping containers. The photographer comments, "The main dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament became unsafe after the February Christchurch earthquake - workmen have slowly been dismantling it. Now we are just left with the cracked and twisted walls that supported the beautiful dome".
Maybe it should be titled "Pray Here"!
The old church buildings next to the Christchurch Basilica (Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament) have been demolished and replaced with ANOTHER Wilson's Car Park. Hundreds of sites in the city where buildings have been demolished after the earthquakes have been replaced in the short term by car parks!
