Beautiful Calvinist Meeting Houses

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Another Japanese wedding chapel, this time modern Gothic Revival with plastic "stained glass" windows.

 

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For those in Japan hankering for a more spartan look.

 

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This is actually rather handy. An overflow crowd for the wedding can view it from the hotel corridors to the right side. Again the space is "sanctified" with (plastic) stained glass. Note the fact that that the patterns and depictions in the stained glass are haphazard and unbalanced. It is just there for effect.

 

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I suppose there is something to be said about creativity here, although not much can be said regarding actual functional reality.

 

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This is Trinity Cathedral, in Italian of course, and located in Japan. Strangely it is actually neo French Gothic Revival and not Italian in the least.

 

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b's, are these Calvinistic meeting houses?

 

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b's, are these Calvinistic meeting houses?

Possibly in the loosest sense of the word. They are not churches. They are not RCC, EOC, Lutheran, Anglican, Anabaptist, or Arminian. They are an homage to the pervasiveness of American Christian buildings. The form of wedding service performed in Japanese "Christian" chapels follows that of standard American Protestant worship books, albeit that the officiant is not a Christian nor are any of the participants and guests.

That said, there are many Reformed meetinghouses which survive today without any church meeting in them, but as historic monuments. The question comes down to what constitutes a Reformed meeting house. If, for example, a Reformed congregation must have used it at some point in its history, but it was also used by other various congregations, as many such meeting houses have been, does qualify?