Church Square is the historic centre of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. The central area of Pretoria. ...
Its most prominent feature is the statue of the Boer leader and president of the South African RepublicPaul Kruger at its centre. Statues of four anonymous Boer citizen-soldiers surround that of Kruger's on a lower level of the plinth. Boer is the Afrikaans (and Dutch) word for farmer. ... The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, not to be confused with the Republic of South Africa, occupied the area later known as the province of Transvaal, first from 1857 to 1877, and again, after a successful Afrikaner rebellion against British rule... Paul Kruger Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904), fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for Uncle Paul), was a prominent Boer resistance leader against British rule and president of the Transvaal Republic in South Africa. ...
Several historically and architecturally significant buildings surround the square: the Palace of Justice, the Old Capitol Theatre, the Tudor Chambers, the Ou Raadsaal (Old Council Chamber) and the General Post Office, which was designed by John Cleland.
The turreted Palace of Justice was the scene of arguably the most famous political trial in South Africa's history, the Rivonia Trial. During this trial, Nelson Mandela and a number of other prominent liberation struggle figures were charged with treason and subsequently incarcerated. The Rivonia Trial was an infamous trial which took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to ferment violent revolution. Origins It was named after Rivonia, the suburb of Johannesburg where 19... President Nelson Mandela, 1995-1999 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, OM CC, (born 18 July 1918) was the first democratically-elected President of South Africa. ...
Unlike St Andrew’s Church, the church in Charlotte Square was to occupy the site reserved for it in James Craig’s plan of 1768, and would terminate the vista along George Street, one of the principal streets in the New Town.
The cornice of the church is at the same level as the top of the parapet of the two flanking blocks, also helping to carry the eye along the west side of the Square.
Adam produced for the elevations of the four sides of the Square, at the request of Lord Provost Stirling, include as part of the proposals for the west side of the Square an elevation of that facade of the church.
This Catholic church dedicated to John the Baptist on Templom tér is thought to originate from the beginning of the 14th C, with 15th C additions, and to be built on the site of an older small church.
In the 18th C Catholic immigrants from Dalmatia took over the church which had been abandoned and damaged by the Turks, restoring it in 1710 and again in 1780 in Baroque style.
In the house opposite the church (Templom tér 1) the artistic heritage of the Hungarian painter Béla Czóbel (1883-1976) is on show.
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