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Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles, California) 1926 built 2009 NRHP-listed 2412 Griffith Avenue ... St. John Baptist Church (Dorseyville, Louisiana) built NRHP-listed
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist Church located in South Los Angeles, California.The current Lombardy Romanesque Revival building was built in 1926 and has been listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (1978) and on the National Register of Historic Places (2009).
The original cathedral in what was the city of Puerto Rico (changed to San Juan Bautista in 1521) was constructed from wood in 1521. It was destroyed by a hurricane and the current church construction began in 1535, being practically completed in 1802, later in 1905 an upper portion to the facade was added.
St. John the Baptist parish was founded in 1871 to serve the Portuguese community in the area, becoming the second parish in New Bedford.. Portuguese immigration declined in the early 21st century, and later generations moved beyond New Bedford and Fall River, even as the cost of maintaining the historic church continued to rise.
The church is 165 feet long and 67 feet wide, originally accommodating 1,200 people, and costing $175,000 to construct. [1] View from the northeast, c. 1911, depicting the church (at left) in relation to the then new Penn Station The Capuchin Convent of St. John the Baptist on 31st Street, facing Madison Square Garden
St. John's Baptist Church (also known as the New St. John Institutional Baptist Church and St. John Institutional Missionary Baptist Church) is a historic church in Miami, Florida. It is located at 1328 Northwest 3rd Avenue. On April 17, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [4]
At this time, it was the largest church building in North America and remains the second largest church in Canada after Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal and the largest cathedral church in Canada. The Basilica-Cathedral is one of the few buildings in St. John's to survive the Great Fire of 1892 .
Msgr. Kazista served as pastor at St. James Parish in Mount Rainier, Maryland from 1984–87. He was then appointed pastor of St. John the Baptist in 1987. Kazista had earlier served as a parochial vicar at St. John's for five years. As pastor of St. John's, Kazista served for nearly 25 years before retiring in 2011. [2]