kirks

Highland Presbyterian chapels

Kirks is the plural of kirk, the Scottish word for church.

A kirk is both the building and the institution: the old stone kirks of the Highlands, He was raised in the kirk.

The Kirk, capitalized, typically means the Church of Scotland specifically.

scottish-churches

congregation

Assembled group of worshippers

session · manse · steeple · pews · Scotland · reformed · worship · Sunday · sermon · hymns

architecture

stone

Solid earth fragment

tower · buttress · arched · windows · doorway · restoration · ruins · historic · masonry · roof

surname

Douglas

Type of conifer

clan · heritage · ancestry · Scottish · descendants · namesake · bloodline · relatives · kinship

Categories
Opposites
religious building scale/grandeur

kirkscathedrals

Principal churches of dioceses

basilicas · abbeys · St. Peter's Basilica · Notre-Dame · Westminster Abbey

religious tradition

kirkstemples

Holy places or head sides

synagogues · mosques · Buddhist temples · shrines · chapels

sacred vs secular space

kirkstown halls

Local government headquarters

courthouses · civic buildings · pubs · taverns · marketplaces

Phrases
Family

kirk

Familiarity
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Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G