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The Conservation of Religious Buildings
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| Religious buildings have traditionally been well built, from the longest-lasting materials available. Despite the original quality, long exposures to harsh climates, environmental pollution and even
environmental disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes can ultimately cause major problems in their structures and materials. All over the world there are cathedrals, churches, mosques, temples and synagogues with high and massive unreinforced
masonry walls and buttressed towers, built with multiple layers of stone, brick and rubble. Hidden deep inside these structures often exists unknown damage where acid rain has penetrated into the walls and literally destroyed the very mortar which
was holding the walls together, and where minor earthquakes have seriously damaged the integrity of the masonry. Engineers and other buildings conservation experts faced with the special problems of great religious buildings in widely differing
environments in Australia, Canada, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States are finding that CINTEC grout injection anchors can uniquely provide them not only with the means to stabilize and conserve damaged structures but also to protect
structures against future structural damage from earthquakes.
Despite differences in religions, religious buildings often share similar structural and material problems. Luckily, they can also share solutions using CINTEC anchors. High towers, spires and minarets are naturally difficult to inspect and therefore serious structural problems can develop undetected. When major cracks and bulges are discovered in high masonry walls and towers it will usually be found that the great flexibility of the CINTEC anchor systems will provide an excellent solution. |
 Grace Church: Brooklyn, New York, USA  United Methodist Church: Belleville, Canada  St. Anne's R.C. Church: Ottawa, Canada |
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