Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius (born March 28, 1923 in Baisogala

Baisogala

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) is a Lithuania

Lithuania

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n architect

Architect

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 and artist best known for his work on Canadian churches.

Biography

Between 1941  and 1943, he the studied at Vytautas Magnus University

Vytautas Magnus University

Vytautas Magnus University ) is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the interwar period as an alternate national university...

 and from 1942 - 1943 at the Kaunas Institute of Applied Arts. In 1944, he moved to Germany

Germany

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 and studied at the University of Hanover from 1946 - 1948, and the Darmstadt Technical University from 1948 - 1952. Since 1952 he has lived in Canada

Canada

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, where he established his architectural company in Toronto

Toronto

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Kulpa-Kulpavičius was responsible for work on many buildings, many of them churches. These include Our Lady's Church, Montreal

Montreal

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 (1952), St. St. Casimir's Church, Winnipeg

Winnipeg

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 and St. Gregory's Church, Toronto (1959), Lithuanian Martyrs' Church, Mississauga, Providence of God Church and Cultural Center, Detroit and St. Thomas Church, London

London

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 (1978), Corporation Canadien Tire Building, Toronto (1979) etc. He was also the creator of small-scale architectural structures such as crosses and tombstones and built a collection of Canadian Inuit

Inuit

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stone sculptures.

He returned to Lithuania in 2006.