Discovering a different and jewel-like heritage in Johannesburg, the JHF visits three little known but especially interesting and very beautiful sets of windows in two churches and a school chapel. 

We start with the oldest in the city in the oldest church in Johannesburg, St Mary the Less in Jeppestown. More dramatic are the windows designed by Elly Holm for the Friedenkirche, a well-known landmark in Hillbrow and a fully proclaimed heritage site, in the Sixties. The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation has commissioned Stephanie to restore the ones which have been damaged with the opening and closing of windows, and this project has been supported very generously by the Mackenzie Foundation. Here we will also meet Dieter Holm, a relative of Elly Holm and himself an architect.

Our last stop takes us to Waverley where we view the remarkable stained glass windows at St Mary’s School for Girls. 

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GUIDES: Flo Bird and Stephanie Fassler

TIME: 13h30

PARK: Sunnyside Park Hotel, Princess of Wales Terrace, Parktown

COST: R200.00 for members and R260.00 for non-members 

DURATION: Approximately 3 hours

MAXIMUM No: 50

SAIAT CPD Points: 0.2 for Category 1