{"id":10455,"date":"2021-04-09T09:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2021-04-09T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:15:22","slug":"church-steeples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10455","title":{"rendered":"Church Terms: Steeples, Manse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Church steeples are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steeple\">fashioned <\/a>after military watchtowers starting AD 600. It appears that lots of OPC churches are structured with a steeple. Steeples are usually enclosure (belfry) for bells, a fashion adapted by Islam's minarets. A steeple could contain a lantern section between the spire and belfry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some churches have little or big cross on the <strong>spire <\/strong>(sharp pointy top part) of the steeple. The Mormons usually place a stature of their angel Moroni on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's mainly a symbolic display of heaven pointing significance after the tradition of European and mainly British church architecture custom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OPC churches call what others refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clergy_house\">clergy house<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manse\">manse<\/a>. More commonly known as rectory elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church steeples are fashioned after military watchtowers starting AD 600. It appears that lots of OPC churches are structured with a steeple. Steeples are usually enclosure (belfry) for bells, a fashion adapted by Islam's minarets. A steeple could contain a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization","category-vocabularies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10460,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions\/10460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}