The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (also known as North Methodist Episcopal Church) is a historic Methodist Episcopal Church at 2051 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. This High Victorian Gothic structure was built in 1873-74 for an Episcopal congregation, and has since 1926 been the home to the city's oldest African-American congregation, which was established in 1833 The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The first worship service was held on March 12, 1865, and on March 23, just two and a half weeks after General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Asylum Hill Congregational Church became the seventh Congregational church to be formed in Hartford. The cornerstone was laid on May 5, 1865, and the completed church, costing just over $116,000 including the land, was dedicated on June 15, 1866.
The Bedford Avenue Reformed Church was organized in 1828 as the First Reformed Dutch Church of Williamsburgh, then a village within the town of Bushwick. Ground was acquired on Fourth Street, near South Second, and work commenced toward the erection of a church building. On September 28, 1828, the cornerstone was laid with appropriate religious exercises, and the completed edifice was dedicated on July 26, 1829. During the winter of 1848-49, the church underwent expensive repairs and alterations.
Plymouth Church is an historic church located at 57 Orange Street between Henry and Hicks Streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City; the Church House has the address 75 Hicks Street. The church was built in 1849–50 and was designed by Joseph C. Wells. Under the leadership of its first minister, Henry Ward Beecher, it became the foremost center of anti-slavery sentiment in the mid-19th century.
The Oldest Methodist Church in Northern Illinois:
In 1829 the first regularly appointed Methodist minister arrived in Galena. By 1832 a plain frame church was erected on Bench Street, but was lost to fire in 1838. A new building was built in 1841, and by 1856 the congregation had grown so that yet another new brick and stone church needed to be built. The present church was dedicated in 1857.
"The first Methodist Church in Keokuk was started in 1842 at 325 Exchange St. and was called the First Methodist Society. In 1869 they moved to 9th and Bank St., built a church and changed their name to First Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1869 – 1910 the German MC, Swedish MC and Chatham Square M.E. Church joined together to form Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church at the corner of 10th and Main St. in Keokuk, Ia. at that time there was 645 members."
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The large *Church of St. Mary, erected over the traditional birth place of Christ, lies in the E. part of the town, above the Wâdi el-Hrobbeh, and is the joint property of the Greeks, Latins, and Armenians.
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato, contains the Grotto of the Annunciation.
I only meant to write about the churches, but I keep wandering from the subject. I could say that the Church of the Annunciation is a wilderness of beautiful columns, of statues, gilded moldings, and pictures almost countless, but that would give no one an entirely perfect idea of the thing, and so where is the use? One family built the whole edifice, and have got money left. There is where the mystery lies. We had an idea at first that only a mint could have survived the expense.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
1868 Church organized, Chapel opened at Washington and Court Streets
10th & G St NW, November 24 & 25, 1884 and February 28, 1885, the final show of the tour.
in May 1868, the congregation moved into its new home at 10th and G St. NW. Its large brick building made a statement. The Congregationalists were here to stay.
The site of the church that served as venue for Mark Twain and George W. Cable is now the location of the Duquesne Club. The church was sold to the Duquesne Club in 1886. The church bought a lot on the corner of Wylie Ave. and Congress in 1888.
(History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Vol I 1889).
The Club building was built in 1887 and opened in 1890
February 11, 1885: Sam and Cable gave a reading sponsored by the Union Library Association, at the First Congregational Church, Oberlin, Ohio. Reviews were mixed [Cardwell 58]. Clemens included: “Tragic Tale of the Fishwife,” “A Trying Situation,” “A Ghost Story,” and “Incorporated Company of Mean Men” [MTPO]. (Fears, "Mark Twain Day By Day).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_Church_of_Christ
I don't have documentation that this is where the Twain-Cable speaking engagement occurred but the Twain Speaking Engagements site mentions it occurred in the Methodist Church and Janet C. Olson Assistant University Archivist at Northwestern University Library provided me with the address:
The (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal 1885: January 27 noted that the venue was the M.E. Church and the other reviews referred to it as the Methodist Church. Checking the city directory for 1884 I found listed the First Methodist Episcopal Church at the northwest corner of Wisconsin Ave. and E Dayton. This seems to fit the bill for the Twain Cable shows on January 21 and 27 of 1885.
I found references to three Methodist Churches in Ottawa, IL but found no mention of dates for their structures. The First United Methodist Church at 100 West Jefferson Street, Ottawa, IL 61350 is closest to downtown Ottawa
The location of Mark Twain's lecture in Akron, OH on December 30, 1868 is noted as the Methodist Church. The location and name of the site in 1868 has not been definitively determined but one possibility is ...
The Universalist's Old Stone Church is gone, but the Sojourner Truth
Building in its place is named for an event that put Akron on the civil-rights map.
This church has owned and occupied three houses of worship: The original Plymouth Church, northwest corner of Meridian street and Monument Place, now a part of the English Hotel; the second Plymouth Church, on the southeast corner of Meridian and New York streets, on ground now occupied by the Federal Building, and the third, on Central avenue, at Fourteenth street, which was acquired by purchase and remodeled. http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/5761/5242
The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is a church in Venice, northern Italy. One of the greatest churches in the city, it has the status of a minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district. The church is dedicated to the Assumption (Italian: Assunzione della Beata Virgine).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_Gloriosa_dei_Frari
The Church of St. Nicholas (German: St.-Nikolai-Kirche) was a Gothic Revival cathedral that was formerly one of the five Lutheran Hauptkirchen (main churches) in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The original chapel, a wooden building, was completed in 1195. It was replaced by a brick church in the 14th century, which was eventually destroyed by fire in 1842. The church was completely rebuilt by 1874, and was the tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876. It was designed by the English architect George Gilbert Scott.
It is believed that the church is near the original Hammaburg area and that previous cathedral existed on the site. St. Peter's was probably built at the start of the 1189; it was first documented in 1195 as a market cathedral or ecclesia forensis. In about 1310, the cathedral was rebuilt in a Gothic style and was completed in approximately 1418. The bronze lion-head door handles, the oldest work of art of Hamburg, date from the foundation of the tower in 1342.
Trinity Church (1735-1872) was an Episcopal church in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Summer Street.[1] It housed Boston's third Anglican congregation. The Great Fire of 1872 destroyed the church building, and by 1877 the congregation moved into a new building in Back Bay.
Union Park Congregational Church and Carpenter Chapel (also known as First Baptist Congregational Church) is a historic church building at 60 N. Ashland Blvd. on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.