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Apr 22, 2024 · A sculpture of the Ten Commandments, both in English and Hebrew, acts as bridge from the outside world to the inside’s sacred space. Hands of Peace sculpture by Nehemia Azaz above the entrance to Chicago Loop Synagogue, 2022.
In fairness, the first inhabitant of Chicago was neither Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable nor John Kinzie—it was an as-yet-unknown Native American. Find out about the Black pioneer and trader who founded the famous city of Chicago.
- Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
- Olivet Baptist Church
- Stone Temple Baptist Church
- Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church
- Trinity United Church of Christ
- New Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Chicago’s oldest Black congregation began as a seven-person prayer group in 1844, less than a decade after the incorporation of the city. Admitted to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1847, the group named its churchafter William Paul Quinn, an A.M.E. missionary and bishop who founded several churches in what was then known as the Northwest...
Olivet Baptist is another of Chicago’s oldest Black congregations, having been founded in 1850 as Xenia Baptist Church before eventually merging with another church during the Civil War to become Olivet. As with Quinn Chapel A.M.E., and indeed many of the best-known Black churches, Olivet has been a locus of activism, on behalf of civil rights as w...
Housed in a former Romanian synagogue in North Lawndale, Stone Temple Baptist Church was bought by a Black congregation relocating from Bronzeville in 1954 and named after its pastor, Rev. James Marcellus Stone. Under Stone’s leadership, the church became involved in the civil rights movement, holding a protest rally in response to the murder of Em...
This Bronzeville building was well-known even before a Black congregation moved in, hosting speakerssuch as Eleanor Roosevelt and Jane Addams while it was the home of the Jewish Sinai Congregation. After serving as a Catholic school for nearly two decades, it was taken over by the congregation of Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church in the early 19...
This large church in Washington Heights attracted national attention during the 2008 Presidential election because of controversial statements made in sermons by its pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright; Barack Obama was a member of the church. (The Obamas resigned their membership and Wright retired in 2008.) But Trinity United has much more to be known f...
Like many Black churches in Chicago, this Garfield Park building was once the home of another denomination, in this case the Irish Catholic parish of St. Mel’s, before being purchased by New Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church in 1993. It is notable in partfor its Maafa Remembrance window, named for the Swahili word for “unspeakable horror,” which replace...
Sacred Space International was founded in 2002 by Suzanne Morgan to promote interfaith education and dialogue through the understanding of religious architecture.
Jul 26, 2017 · Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, founded by Mother Cabrini, staff the shrine. “It is a place where people come from the outside for peace and comfort,” Sister Regina Zanin, director, said of the shrine.
Held as part of the World Columbian Exposition on the shores of Lake Michigan, the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions marks the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.
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The predecessor of the congregation was the Sacred Congregation for Rites, founded by Pope Sixtus V on 22 January 1588 in the bull Immensa aeterni Dei. The congregation dealt both with regulating divine worship and the causes of saints.
