Broadway Presbyterian Church

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

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

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

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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. The Lutheran, Volume 7, Lutheran Church in America, 1969
  4. 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

Seventy-fifth anniversary, Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Baltimore City, Broadway and Gough Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 1885-1965 by George Frederick Flentje

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