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Highland Park Baptist Church was a prominent Southern Baptist church in the Highland Park neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee. During the four-decade pastorship of Dr. Lee Roberson , it was a center of the Independent Baptist movement and became an early megachurch .
Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Chattanooga was founded in January 1852. The small but growing Catholic community in Chattanooga attended Mass in various buildings through the parish's early years. In 1858, work began on a stone church, but construction ceased in 1860 due to the Civil War.
The (Original) Church of God shares a common origin and history with the Church of God (Cleveland) and several other Christian bodies named Church of God.The (Original) Church of God, Inc. came into being in 1917, when the Church of God in Chattanooga, Tennessee, led by Joseph L. Scott, separated from the Cleveland-based church. [1]
First Baptist Church East 8th Street, historically named Shiloh Baptist Church, is a historic church at 506 E. 8th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The congregation was organized in 1866 as Shiloh Baptist Church by a group of men who had served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War .
It is the oldest building designed by Hunt that is still extant in Chattanooga. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] Since 1984, the undercroft of the church's main building has been used as a homeless shelter, operated as a cooperative project of Second Presbyterian Church and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. St.
The congregation has a history of support for foreign missions and is active today, through partnerships with other churches and agencies, in numerous parts of the world. The church sponsors a year-round camp and conference center, Camp Vesper Point. [7] It supports 63 missionaries, 5 church planting partnerships in 31 countries. [8] [9]
The church's current Greek Revival building, completed in 1916 at a cost of $30,000, [2] was designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt. It is his only Greek Revival design in Chattanooga. [3] The building includes a church school annex added in 1926 and an education building added in 1958. In the 1960s, the sanctuary was remodeled. [2]
The oldest church in Medina County and the second oldest in the Western Reserve. Still active today. Was expanded in 2002. Wyandot Mission Church: Upper Sandusky: OH 1824 Methodist The oldest Methodist mission church in America Beech Cumberland Presbyterian Church Hendersonville: TN 1828 Cumberland Presbyterian The oldest church in Middle ...