Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa September/October 2013

PROJECT International Pentecost Holiness Church Designed as a structure to house and entertain the youth of a large congregation, the Youth Centre has developed as a source of inspiration for the community, a structure which manifests the communities aspirations International Pentecost Holiness Church Youth Centre, Zuurbekom Architects & Project Managers Archi-Studio Quantity Surveyors Schoobie Hartmann Consulting Structural Engineers BSM Baker Main Contractor Abbeydale Building & Civils Text & Photographs Archi-Studio T he International Pentecost Holiness Church is an organisation established in 1962 by the late Honourable Reverend F.S. Modise. Begun as a prayer group in a humble home in Meadowlands, Soweto, No. 1 Vincent Road, now Reverend F. S. Modise Drive, the congregation grew into a formal organisation which moved to a newly built Church in Zone 10 Meadowlands. To accommodate his fast growing congregation, the present site was purchased and developed against many obstacles presented during the dark apartheid years. In 1998 Comforter M. G. Modise, son and successor of the late Reverend F. S. Modise, took over as leader of the 3,5 million strong organisation with over 300 branches scattered around Southern Africa. Site The International Pentecost Holiness Church complex is situated 2,1km north of the Moroka Bypass in Zuurbekom. Nestled in and surrounded by various agricultural holdings, the complex is inconspicuous amongst its neighbours and becomes noticeable only when approaching the grand gatehouse structure. Based on the use of perfect geometries, i.e. the circle and square, the building is clearly read externally and internally, as a cylinder within a cube with the 60m clear span dome as the central space 44 IPHC

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