Troyeville Baptist Church

This guide to Troyeville Baptist Church in Johannesburg opens with the unexplained detail atop its spire, a Christian cross sharing its perch with a Star of David, and traces the building back to 1897, when a gold-rush congregation raised a shed of wood and tin locals called the Tin Tabernacle. It follows the church's growth into South Africa's oldest Baptist congregation, and the architect and craftsman who, by 1911, replaced the tin walls with something permanent. Stand back and look up at the spire they raised, and that double symbol still crowning it.