City of Churches

Name of several churches

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City of Churches is a name given to various cities with many churches.

This phrase has been used to describe the following cities:[citation needed]

## In Europe

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* Rome, Italy
* Bristol, England[1]
* Geneva, Switzerland
* Kraków, Poland
* Moscow, Russia
* Norwich, England[2]
* Przemyśl, Poland
* Naples, Italy
* Vilnius, Lithuania
* Ohrid, North Macedonia
* Salzburg, Austria[3]

## In America

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### In the United States

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* Detroit, Michigan
* Brooklyn, New York[4]
* Charlotte, North Carolina
* Danville, Virginia
* Bloomfield, New Jersey
* Easton, Pennsylvania
* Fort Wayne, Indiana
* Holland, Michigan
* Jonesboro, Arkansas
* Louisville, Kentucky
* Manchester, New Hampshire
* Memphis, Tennessee
* Richmond, Virginia
* Titusville, Florida
* Evanston, Illinois[5]
* Wheaton, Illinois
* Tulsa, Oklahoma
* Berkeley, California[6]

### Elsewhere

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* Toronto, Ontario
* Montreal, Quebec
* Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
* Ayacucho, Peru

## In Oceania

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* Adelaide, South Australia
* Christchurch, New Zealand

## See also

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* City of Spires
* Oxford, England \- known as the "City of dreaming spires"

## References

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1. ^ The Land we Live In: a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British Islands. Volume III. Wm. S. Orr & Co. 1856.
2. ^ Finch, Jonathan (2004). "The Churches". In Rawcliffe, Carole; Wilson, Richard (eds.). Medieval Norwich. London: Hambledon and London. pp. 49–72 (49). ISBN 1-85285-449-9.
3. ^ Walzer, Barbara (14 May 2018). "Kirchenstadt Salzburg". SalzburgerLand.com (in German). Retrieved 31 March 2024.
4. ^ Pierre V. R. Key (1914). "Opera For And By The People". The Century Magazine. Retrieved 2013-12-08. "Lois Ewell, the most efficient and popular of the sopranos, comes from Tennessee, although she is known as a Brooklyn girl because of her lengthy residence in the City of Churches."
5. ^ https://www.architecture.org/tours/detail/churches-in-evanston/
6. ^ Charles., Wollenberg (2008). Berkeley : a city in history. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520253070. OCLC 141852549.