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BALTIMORE BEACON — JANUARY 2014
Houses of worship From page 26 dating back to the 1830s. Lovely Lane United Methodist Church and Museum 2200 St. Paul St. (410) 889-1512 www.lovelylane.net Lovely Lane, designed by the famous architect Stanford White in 1884, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered the “mother church” of American Methodism, and was the first meeting place for the denomination’s founders and their congregation. The museum contains portraits, hymnals and memorabilia from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Old Otterbein United Methodist Church 112 W. Conway St. (410) 685-4703 www.oldotterbeinumc.org Old Otterbein is the oldest church in continuous use in Baltimore and serves as the “mother church” of the United Brethren in Christ. The present-day church building was constructed in 1785, with a nearby parsonage built in 1811. The church’s second pastor, Philip William Otterbein, who came to this country to serve German settlers, is buried in the churchyard. Though the interior of the church has been remodeled, its sanctuary is the oldest in continuous use in Baltimore and
the city’s only remaining 18th century church. Sharp Street United Methodist Church 1206 Etting St. (410) 523-7200 www.sharpstreet.org Sharp Street’s current church structure was built in 1898 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The congregation itself was established in 1787, and is the home of Baltimore’s first African-American congregation. It served as host church for early meetings of the NAACP and housed the seminary school that later became Morgan State University. The Zion Evangelical Lutheran 400 E. Lexington St. (410) 727-3939 www.zionbaltimore.org This congregation was founded in 1755 to serve the needs of Lutheran immigrants from Germany, as well as the many Germans from Pennsylvania who moved to Baltimore. The bi-lingual congregation still offers sermons in both German and English. The congregation’s first church was built in 1762 on what is now East Saratoga Street. That was replaced by the current building, constructed from 1807 to 1808. The Lloyd Street Synagogue 15 Lloyd St. (410) 732-6400 www.jewishmuseummd.org Standing just off what is known as Corned Beef Row in Old Town, Baltimore,
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the Greek Revival-styled structure served its founding membership for 45 years until Baltimore Hebrew moved to the Madison Avenue Temple (now Berea Temple of the Seventh Day Adventists) in 1890. The
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the Lloyd Street Synagogue, designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr., was completed in 1845. Prior to its construction, the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, founded in 1830, held services in an apartment above a grocery store until 1845. The third oldest synagogue in America,
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