JOURNEY OF THE SITE AND EBENEZER CHURCH

2.3 JOURNEY OF THE SITE AND THE EBENEZER CHURCH

On the corner of Nyusela and Sehloho street, enveloped in the journey some of these residents have gone through and how daily life in Atteridgeville works. Firstly, the site features an extension of the Ebenezer Church that resides further down Sehloho street. The original Ebenezer church had reached total capacity during the recent years when Atteridgeville grew at the pace that it did. This resulted in the church transforming one of the NE51 housing typologies in the area into a secondary venue for churchgoers. On the site, also seen are the remnants of a housing scheme that fell through. Multiple concrete platforms, zinc structures and cinder block walls re torn down, but some of these elements remain on the site in the form of deconstructed homes and broken up concrete slabs. Features on the site in the present day is, a church that will continually grow based on the growth of Atteridgeville as ll as a failed housing scheme. A scheme that could have been a big success if it re to be implemented in a time where the needs of the people re taken into consideration and housing was not just built to fulfil a particular need.

Figure 8: Relationship beten the existing Ebenezer Street church (A) and its relation to the new sister church (B) on Seloho street [author, 2021]