Har Sinai Church of Christ is located in a historic church building that was originally Broadway Presbyterian Church and then Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church (for more than 75 years) in Baltimore, Maryland.[1][2][3] It was built as a Presbyterian on the southwest corner of Gough Street and Broadway in Fell's Point.[2]
Broadway Presbyterian Church edit
The cornerstone of Broadway Presbyterian Church was laid in a ceremony August 13, 1843. Ebenezer Thompson Baird was one of those in attendance. The church opened in January 1846 with Rev. John C. Backus presiding.[2] Thomas E. Peck was installed as the first pastor. He later served as pastor of another church and became a professor at Hampden Sydney College in Virginia.[2]
Grace English Lutheran edit
In 1887 the church was purchased and became Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church.[3][4] In the mid-1960s much of the congregation had moved to the suburbs.[3]
Contemporary times edit
The brick church building appears to remain standing. A Broadway Presbyterian Church is active in another location. The church building is now identified as St. Augustine English Lutheran Church Baltimore and Har Sinai Church of Christ, a Pentecostal church.
References edit
- ^ The city as suburb: a history of Northeast Baltimore since 1660 by Eric L. Holcomb Center for American Places at Columbia College, Jul 30, 2008 pages 177 and 220
- ^ a b c d History of Baltimore City and County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day: Including Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men by John Thomas Scharf L.H. Everts, 1881 page 548
- ^ a b c The Lutheran, Volume 7, Lutheran Church in America, 1969
- ^ History of Baltimore, Maryland, from Its Founding as a Town to the Current Year, 1729-1898: Including Its Early Settlement and Development; a Description of Its Historic and Interesting Localities; Political, Military, Civil, and Religious Statistics; Biographies of Representative Citizens, Etc., Etc by Henry Elliot Shepherd S.B. Nelson, 1898 page 343
Further reading edit
Seventy-fifth anniversary, Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Baltimore City, Broadway and Gough Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 1885-1965 by George Frederick Flentje