City of Churches
City of Churches is a name given to various cities with many churches.
This phrase has been used to describe the following cities:
In Europe
In America
In the United States
- Detroit, Michigan
- Brooklyn, New York[3]
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Danville, Virginia
- Bloomfield, New Jersey
- Easton, Pennsylvania
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Holland, Michigan
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Jonesboro, Arkansas
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Manchester, New Hampshire
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Richmond, Virginia
- Titusville, Florida
- Evanston, Illinois[4]
- Wheaton, Illinois
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Berkeley, California[5]
In Oceania
See also
- City of Spires
- Oxford, England - known as the "City of dreaming spires"
References
- The Land we Live In: a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British Islands. Volume III. Wm. S. Orr & Co. 1856.
- Finch, Jonathan (2004). "The Churches". In Rawcliffe, Carole; Wilson, Richard (eds.). Medieval Norwich. London: Hambledon and London. pp. 49–72 (49). ISBN 1-85285-449-9.
- Pierre V. R. Key (1914). "Opera For And By The People". The Century Magazine. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
Lois Ewell, the most efficient and popular of the sopranos, comes from Tennessee, although she is known as a Brooklyn girl because of her lengthy residence in the City of Churches.
- https://www.architecture.org/tours/detail/churches-in-evanston/
- Charles., Wollenberg (2008). Berkeley : a city in history. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520253070. OCLC 141852549.
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