The Cathedral of St. John was founded as King's Church in 1722, with a simple wooden church. It closed in 1776, reopened in 1785 and received a name change to St. John's Church in 1794.

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St John’s Abbey in the US was designed by Marcel Breuer, who had trained at Germany’s influential Bauhaus school. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

For the monks of Saint John's today, the film could offer a more practical lifeline. The church is badly in need of repairs, with some concrete starting to crumble, and steel beginning to rust. Their ...

The church is badly in need of repairs, with some concrete starting to crumble, and steel beginning to rust. Their order has shrunk, from being the world's largest male Benedictine monastery with ...