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This building in 146 Queen Victoria Street in London was built in 1869 for the British and Foreign Bible Society. It was sold around 1986 and later purchased by the Scientology Church.
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This building in 146 Queen Victoria Street in London was built in 1869 for the British and Foreign Bible Society. It was sold around 1986 and later purchased by the Scientology Church.
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This building in 146 Queen Victoria Street in London was built in 1869 for the British and Foreign Bible Society. It was sold around 1986 and later purchased by the Scientology Church. Sadly they have covered up the Bible Society logo with the Church logo.
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The terra cotta statue representing "Hope", a Grecian allegorical female figure, atop the Bible House (1910) on the Sparks Street Mall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The Bible House, formally known as the Hope Building, was built in 1910 and was at the time, Ottawa's first high-rise building (nine storey's, steel framed), which once housed the Christian Science Reading Room. It was built for James Hope, Ottawa's leading publisher at the time.
Its architect was W.E. Nofke. It was constructed by Holbrooke and Sutherland, with its steelwork constructed by the Dominion Bridge Company located in Lachine, Quebec.
For a frontal perspective, one can see an image of the top of the façade, featuring the statue, which I snapped back in 2010 at:
www.flickr.com/photos/hansraffelt/4806505970/in/photolist...
The Pennsylvania Bible Society located in Bible House at 701 Walnut Street, is the oldest Bible Society in the United States, having been founded in 1808. by Robt. Ralston, Bishop Wm. White, and Dr. Benj. Rush. In 1812 PBS was first in the U.S. to print Bibles using stereotyped plates which made them affordable and advanced literacy. Bible House has been its center of distribution since 1854.
Ghost sign in Melbourne, Australia that says "Biblehouse".
...and it looked like one church decided the building was worth saving.
On the Scottish BS website
After 12 years without a home, BFS bought this building in 1916. It served as the BFBS headquarters till 1858. The building was then demolished to make way for a new road, called Queen Victoria Street. On that street, the BFBS built its new Bible House..
This Building on Queen Victoria Street in London served as the headquarters of BFBS from 1869
Home of the Norwegian Bible Society
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95 Bathurst Street, Sydney, NSW.
