Presbyterian churches; Churches; Towers; First Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Miss.)
First Presbyterian Church, a reddish brick church with a tall tower rising from the closest corner. There are several large, presumably stained glass, windows. Other buildings are visible on either side of the church. The tower resembles a bell...
Zion Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.); Crowds; Churches;
Mourners gather in front of Zion Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, waiting to board a bus to Atlanta for the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. Many people have suitcases; several are sitting on them. King's younger brother, A.D. King, was...
Churches; Steeples; Religious facilities; Buildings
Address: 1127 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of First Evangelical Lutheran Church is shown. The building's symmetry is offset by a balcony and steeple that are set off-center. Two sets of double doors serve as the entryway. Above...
Children; Group portraits; Dresses; Suits (Clothing); African Americans; Rites & ceremonies; People
Address: 1304 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Three rows of children pose for a photograph commemorating their first communion in front of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church. The children are African American and range in ages from perhaps...
Churches; Religious facilities; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 213 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. St. Paul's German Evangelical Church and Parish House is set back from the street by a wide sidewalk and parkway with immature trees. Built in 1906 in the late Gothic Revival style, the church is made...
Churches; Religious facilities; Floods; Dwellings; Houses; Buildings; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville
Address: 3511 Rudd Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The church in this flood scene is likely the Church of our Lady on Rudd Avenue. There are homes on either side of the street and the flood waters have covered most of the first story of the buildings.
Churches; Religious facilities; Steeples; Buildings
Christ Evangelical Church, at 1236 E. Breckinridge Street, Louisville, Kentucky, is a brick and stone building with a three-arch entryway topped with a semi-circular stained glass window. Long narrow windows emphasize the upward thrust of the...
Bethel Baptist Church, a two-story brick church with a steeple, sloped roof, and turrets, was built in 1901 near the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The first floor windows and the...
Historic buildings; Churches; Baptist churches; African Americans; Men
Old Providence Church, a simple stone building with small, shuttered windows, located off of New Boonesboro Road in Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky. William Bush, a member of Daniel Boone's second Kentucky expedition, built the stone structure...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Catholic churches
St. Mary's of the Knobs, log church, drawing inset at upper right. Drawing of the first brick Catholic church in Floyd County, built by Thomas Piers on Piers farm in 1837.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Catholic churches
St. Helen Church, in Shively, Kentucky, a stone church featuring two bell towers topped by crosses. A man stands at the iron gate of the stone fence surrounding the church.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Episcopal churches; Historic buildings
Addition to Christ Church Cathedral, located at 417-419 South Second Street in Louisville, Kentucky, is a simple brick building with pointed roof and door, each supporting a cross. Founded in 1822, Christ Church is the oldest church building in...
Evangelical Reformed Salem Church, located at 1720-1722 Prentice Street in Louisville, Kentucky. A girl walks along the dirt road beside the church. The brick building with square turret features yin/yang symbols beneath its arches. On back of...
Memorial church containing the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln's parents were married in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Newspaper caption on back of image: "Church covering famed cabin. The above church, designed from the edifice which once stood...
The sun shines through an arched gothic window into a dark church. A man in a dark clerical robe stands next to the window holding a large book. The church is probably Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church in Oldham County, Kentucky. Title supplied by...
Sheep graze in a clearing next to St. James Episcopal Church in Pewee Valley, Kentucky (registered as a national historical place, NHRP Bldg. #85003072). The stone church can be seen through the trees. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on...
Interior of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, looking toward altar and showing pews and vaulted ceilings. Handwritten on back of print: "Church - St. Patrick, interior of church. 1301 W. Market St."
Walnut Street Baptist Church in its original location at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1890. The church relocated to Third and Saint Catherine Streets in 1901. Image is marred with...
Church with columns and steeple. Cross at the top of the steeple. In 1939 the church moved to Douglass Avenue (now Douglass Boulevard) and Bardstown Road and became the Douglass Avenue Christian Church.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Men; Women
Group of women in five rows on the front steps of a church with two men standing behind them. The women have flags on either side of them and the front row holds a banner that reads "Shawnee Presbyterian Church."
