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Metropolitan United Church is a large neo-Gothic church in downtown Toronto, Canada. It is one of the largest and most prominent churches of the United Church of Canada. It is located on Queen Street East at the corner of Church Street in Toronto's Garden District. ==Design== Designed by Henry Langley, who was to draw "the ubiquitous cloak of decorous gothicism over the face of Ontario in the 1870s"〔Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, ''Hallowed Walls: Church Architecture of Upper Canada'' (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1975), p.90.〕 the church became known as :the "cathedral of Methodism...a monument to ... energy, magnetism and culture....No church in Toronto has such great advantages of position....The handsome grounds of this church form one of the finest spaces in this city....The entire building is of white brick, with abundant cut stone dressing. It is a modernized form of the French thirteenth century Gothic, with nave, transepts and choir."〔Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, ''Hallowed Walls: Church Architecture of Upper Canada'' (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1975), p.175-76.〕 It played an important role in the city that was occasionally nicknamed the "Methodist Rome".〔"The way we were in Toronto in 1892" Trish Worron. ''Toronto Star.'' Nov 1, 2002. pg. A.29〕 Its immediate neighbours are St James's Cathedral (Anglican) and St Michael's Cathedral (Roman Catholic) and the trio of similarly designed churches are a striking Christian witness immediately adjacent to Canada's financial hub. The church's website describes the building in customary evangelical Protestant terms, regarding the nave rather than the altar ("communion table") area as its "sanctuary." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metropolitan United Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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