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stone for the spire. The conspicuous use of flint as a building material, unusual in
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from 1834. The congregation had ambitions to build their own church and a Church
Building Committee was established in 1854 but remained unable to find the means needed for the project. In 1864, it made an appeal to the
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Denmark. During the second half of the 18th century more and more foreign denominations were granted royal exemptions to this prohibition.
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814:City Centre
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550:salt glazed
520:Furnishings
482:East Anglia
312:Lutheranism
283:Saint Jacob
247:Saint Alban
179:Chaplain(s)
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1092:St. John's
1047:St. Mark's
1042:St. Luke's
964:Bispebjerg
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868:Holy Ghost
801:Copenhagen
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