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Akron Baptist Temple's structure has received some criticism, with the church being reproved for its focus on evangelism at the expense of educating its members and its fundamentalist doctrines. [7] [2] Billington claimed the church was intentionally structured to appeal to Appalachian people who had come to work in Akron's rubber industry. [2] [4]
Akron's plan to level the site of one of the country's first megachurches is moving full speed ahead. The former Akron Baptist Temple campus, most recently known as The Word Church, is just a few ...
With membership declining, the Akron congregation sold its 29-acre property and 363,000-square-foot buildings for $1.5 million in 2018 to the Word Church, which put the complex up for sale a year ...
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Volunteers from Annunciation's Philoptochos Society of Akron and Kalymnian Society of Campbell, Ohio, baked 400 loaves of tsourekia, a braided sweet Easter bread, Tuesday for Annunciation's Easter ...
2603 Benton Ave, Akron Founded in 1943, church dedicated in 1946 [50] St. Paul 433 Mission Dr, Akron Founded in 1919, church dedicated in 2003 [51] St. Sebastian 476 Mull Ave, Akron Founded in 1928, church dedicated in 1960 [52] St. Vincent de Paul 164 W Market St, Akron Founded in 1837 for Irish immigrants, the first Catholic parish in Akron.
The Akron architectural firm of Harpster & Bliss, foremost in their field in the early twentieth century, designed the church building in an early form of the Akron Plan. Developed by inventor Lewis Miller, the distinctive floor plan consists of a central sanctuary surrounded by Sunday school rooms. The city's earliest (and thus earliest in the ...