Every time I think I've visited all the historic churches in downtown Joburg, another one pops out of the woodwork. My latest "discovery" is the spectacular Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin, or St. [...]
This post is not part of my Hidden Joburg series, which I started last year (and will eventually return to). But it should be. St. Alban's Anglican Mission Church in Ferreirasdorp would have been [...]
For the newest installment in my Hidden Joburg series, I visited a church in Hillbrow that I've been curious about for years. The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen is around the [...]
I've been doom-scrolling too much and sleeping too little lately. The U.S. government has been hijacked by right-wing zealots. Women's rights have been rolled back by 50 years. The South African government can't provide [...]
I recently bought a copy of Hidden Johannesburg, a hardback coffee table book featuring 28 of Joburg's most interesting (and difficult to access, in some cases) buildings and interiors. Hidden Johannesburg, written by Paul [...]
In the middle of 2020, I started seeing social media posts about the fence outside St. James Presbyterian Church in Bedford Gardens. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the staff at St. James were [...]
Welcome to Week 37 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit the Russian Orthodox Church [...]
For the last year or so, my friend Ang at JOZI.REDISCOVERED and I have been working on a blog collaboration called #TheGodProject. We visit different places of worship around Johannesburg. Ang interviews a spiritual [...]
In my last post I told you about my whirlwind trip to the United Arab Emirates. I stayed in Dubai for four nights, courtesy of Qualcomm, and spent a few days exploring the area without [...]
A few months ago, my friend Ang at JOZI.REDISCOVERED asked me to partner with her on a blogging project. It would be called #TheGodProject, and the two of us would go around Joburg exploring different [...]