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| Our Lady of Carmel Parish Church On the 10th July 1902 some drunken sailors started throwing rocks at a house near the bridge connecting Manoel island to the mainland. One of the stones became stuck between the glass and the image of Our Lady of Carmel in a small niche on the wall of the house. The incident led to the building of a small chapel which came to be known as the chapel of Our Lady of the Stone. In 1921 Gzira became a parish and the people in the area started building a new church to take the place of the chapel. Dedication date: 23rd May 1959 |
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| Our Lady of Carmel parish church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inside photo by Jasmine Grech | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Christ Redeemer The church was built by Albert Grixti without the approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. Permission was given to open the church when it was handed to the Augustinian Sisters who had opened a school in the vicinity. Nowadays the parish is taking care of it. |
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| Our Lady Star of the Sea The school 'Stella Maris College' which the Christian Brothers had opened in Villa Schinas in 1904 was transferred to a new school which they built in 1938. Twenty years later the College chapel was open to the people residing in the area. Marriages may be celebrated in it. St.Anthony Manoel Island With the severe hits on the fort from air raids during WWII, only part of this 1723 chapel remains. It was built in Grandmaster De Vilhena's time and used to contain a crypt. The crypt will first be reconstructed after the surrounding buildings are ready, then the church itself. First picture shows it intact from an 1860 photo. According to A Ferres (1866), when Catholics were stationed in this fort, the church was used as a Catholic church but when Protestant soldiers were stationed there, it was used as a school. The ongoing restoration lacks an actual plan of the church, so old pictures are being used with the unknown sculpted areas being left blank and as much as possible of the existing material being used. |
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| St.Anthony in 1860 with the statue of Grandmaster De Vilhena on the left. | The ruins of the chapel before restoration. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009 Restored | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St.George Mentioned in the list of Mons.Dusina in 1575. Nowadays Lost. St Roque The Lazzaretto on Manoel Island had a chapel of this dedication in A Ferres' time in 1866 Bible Baptist church The church was started by Maltese-American Joseph Mifsud and his wife Jenny in March 1985. The congregation used to meet in rented premises at the Belleair Lounge in St.Andrews for around 9 years until 1994. After much opposition a building permit was obtained to start a church. Some funds were donated by some American Baptist Churches to purchase a plot of land in Gzira. Most of the work on the outside of the building was completed in 1993. On the 14th April 1994 the first service was held in the church building. |
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| Holy Cross An Anglican Chapel built by the British within Fort Manoel (The fort was called HMS Phoenicia by the British) to accommodate the service personnel. This Chapel was closed in the early '60's and another one opened at Birgu where need was more pressing. |
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