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The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland.It has been described as the only public museum in the world devoted solely to this subject, [2] [3] although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg [4] and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht.
St. Mungo's may refer to: St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow a.k.a. Glasgow Cathedral and The High Kirk of Glasgow St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries from the Harry Potter books
Glasgow Cathedral Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St Andrew: Archdiocese of Glasgow: 1797 Motherwell Cathedral Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Good Aid: Diocese of Motherwell: 1947 Church consecrated in 1929.
2009: Photograph of St Mungo's Parish Church, Google Maps (Street View) 1990: Painting of the old church ruins, BBC & Public Catalog Foundation; 1949: Aerial photograph showing St Mungo's Parish Church, Britain from Above; 1928: Aerofilm showing St Mungo's Parish Church, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)
Tomb of St. Mungo in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral. On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the cathedral dedicated in his honour. His shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish Reformation. His remains are said to still rest in the crypt. A spring called "St. Mungo's Well" fell eastwards from the apse.
Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral between 1988 and 1997 uncovered architectural fragments of this first stone cathedral beneath the floor of the present cathedral. The west front of the 1136 cathedral lay at the third pier of the existing nave and its east end included the area of St Mungo's tomb.
Western façade of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.. The city is notable for architecture designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). Mackintosh was an architect and designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom, designing Glasgow buildings such as the Glasgow School of Art, Willow Tearooms and the Scotland Street ...
St Mungo's Academy was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1858 at 96 Garngad Hill, [1] Glasgow to educate poor Catholic boys, largely Irish immigrants or their children. The school was named for the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Mungo, and had ambitions to create a Catholic professional class by educating the boys to secondary level and prepare them for university studies.