Iron church

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The Garrison Church of St. Barbara von Deepcut, built in 1901 from corrugated iron, is one of the largest still existing ice churches in the United Kingdom.
Iron Church in Crusnes , France

An iron church is made of prefabricated elements made of corrugated iron or cast iron existing church buildings .

The first examples made of corrugated iron, a very modern building material at the time, were made in Great Britain towards the end of the 19th century . These “do-it-yourself churches” called tin tabernacle , tin church or iron church helped new congregations quickly to their own assembly buildings (which were later mostly replaced by stone churches) or were shipped to remote colonies such as Australia . Also Gustave Eiffel , builder of the Eiffel Tower , designed such churches to the Philippines and from Peru and Mexico were delivered.

Threatened by corrosion and demolition , only a few ice churches have survived to this day. One of the few remaining ice churches and at the same time one of the largest is the Bulgarian Orthodox Church of St. Stephen in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul , whose cast iron components were manufactured in Vienna at the end of the 19th century .

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