St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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A prominent feature of the Edinburgh skyline, St. Giles’ Cathedral or the High Kirk of Edinburgh is a Church of Scotland. The church has been one of Edinburgh’s religious focal points for approximately 900 years. Today it is sometimes regarded as the mother church of Presbyterianism. St. Giles was only a cathedral in its formal sense (i.e. the seat of a bishop) for two periods during the 17th century (1635–38 and 1661–1689), when Episcopalianism, backed by the Crown, briefly gained ascendancy within the Kirk.
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cathedral, place of worship, sanctuary, Abbey, parish, big ole church, church of scotland edinburgh, high kirkSource
Rev. C. Arthur Lane Illustrated Notes on English Church History (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1901)
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