Church Square, Pretoria

Church Square, Pretoria

Church Square (English) or Kerkplein (Afrikaans), is the historic centre of the city of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Its most prominent feature is the statue of the Boer leader and president of the South African Republic Paul Kruger at its centre. Statues of four anonymous Boer citizen-soldiers surround that of Kruger's on a lower level of the plinth.

Several historically and architecturally significant buildings surround the square: the Palace of Justice, the Old Capitol Theatre, the Tudor Chambers, the Ou Raadsaal (Old Council Chamber) and the General Post Office, which was designed by John Cleland.

The turreted Palace of Justice was the scene of arguably the most famous political trial in South Africa's history, the Rivonia Trial. During this trial, Nelson Mandela and a number of other prominent liberation struggle figures were charged with treason and subsequently incarcerated.

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Panoramic Montage of Church Square

Coordinates: 25°44′47″S 28°11′18″E / 25.7465°S 28.1882°E / -25.7465; 28.1882



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