The Mission Church is a historic Congregational church located at the corner of Huron and Tuscott Streets on Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States. Built in 1829, it is the oldest existing church in the state of Michigan. In 1971, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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... he could, just once, fill all one hundred seats of the little brick church ... In 1959, a new and larger church was completed with a seating capacity of 500 ... The congregation first worshiped in the new church on Palm Sunday, 1959, and when the mortgage was paid off in 1974, a new Truro Church building was ...
... San Estevan del Rey Mission Church is a Spanish mission church that was founded in 1629 at Acoma Pueblo — in present day Acoma, New Mexico ... The large adobe mission, first built in circa 1641, was part of colonial New Spain establishing a northern presence in Santa Fe de Nuevo México province ... The Mission Church was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970, and is on the National Register of Historic Places ...
... Today there is a small Anglican Mission church dating from the last half of the 19th century ... In the 19th century missions were established at Whiston (1880) and Levedale (c ... The mission church at Whiston is of red brick and consists of nave, small chancel, and south porch ...
... Father Divine centralized the movement into a formal church ... were set up in 1941, the Circle Mission Church the Unity Mission Church and the Palace Mission Church ... The Peace Mission's political focus on anti-lynching measures became more resolved ...
... The church was used for some years for political meetings and plays, and occasionally for church services ... It was used by the Catholic Church in 1870, reroofed, and for some time used for services until St Anne's was constructed ... In 1894, a group of residents purchased the church for nondenominational services, restored it, and opened it in the summer of 1895 ...
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