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The City Hall:
Belfast is primarily an industrial city but it has some sights of genuine interest. The City Hall, of considerable magnificence in its interior, is one of them, the vast Harland and Wolff Shipyards, not far from the heart of the city, is another, and the Stormont Parliament Palace, a few miles out, is emphatically another.About the spacious Civic Center Plaza are grouped a number of impressive public buildings. These include the City Hall, Civic Auditorium, Public Library, and State Building facing the plaza itself and, across Van Ness Avenue from the City Hall, the Municipal Opera House and the Veterans' Memorial Building. All are faced with California Granite and form a harmonious unit architecturally. Nearby is the 20-story. block-square Federal Office Building, which on its completion in 1963 was the largest office building west of Chicago.
Religion.—To serve the spiritual needs of the community there are more than 80 churches in the city. Its first church was almost contemporary with the founding of the community. The first minister, a Methodist, arrived in Racine in 1836, scarcely two years after the first settlement was made. Since the earliest days, the religious composition of the population has changed considerably. Today people worship in churches of a wide number of denominations, including Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. Places of Interest.—Among the interesting buildings are the Court House, City Hall, Memorial Hall, the Public Library, the William Wadewitz Memorial to the dead of World War II, and the Wind Point Lighthouse.
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