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The Star of David (Hebrew: מָגֵן דָּוִד, romanized: Magen David, lit. 'Shield of David') [a] is a symbol generally recognized as representing both Jewish identity and Judaism. [1] Its shape is that of a hexagram: the compound of two equilateral triangles. The Star of David featured in the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic text.
St. John the Baptist Parish was officially founded on June 18, 1960 and, on the following morning, the first Mass was celebrated by Fr. Lyon in the rectory chapel, with 275 people in attendance. On Sunday, May 7, 1961, despite threatening weather, an outdoor Mass was held on the grounds of St. John the Baptist and a ground-breaking ceremony was ...
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Alumni donations led to a restoration in the 1980s, [7] and the Class of 1997's Class Gift was a restoration of the chapel's West Courtyard. [8] For the first 40-plus years of the chapel's existence, the Memorial Chapel carillon rang out Maryland's state song, "Maryland, My Maryland." On April 21, 1999, however, the carillon began to play the ...
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. [1] The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s.
Richmond Cemetery originally contained two chapels, one of Church of England denomination and one for Nonconformists, both built in the Gothic Revival style. The Church of England chapel (shown as "Richmond Community Chapel" on Richmond Council's map of Richmond and East Sheen Cemeteries) [6] was built in 1875 to a design by Sir Arthur Blomfield and is a Grade II listed building.
Interior of the Memorial Chapel dome. Architect Harry Wild Jones designed the cemetery's chapel which began construction in August 1908. Built of the finest materials, the chapel seats about 200 and is renowned for its beauty and superb acoustics. The dome is 65 feet high with 24 stained glass windows inset its full circumference.
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2015.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: