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- n. any building where congregations gather for prayer
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“[142] Mr Orme supposes the place of worship to have been that in Bury”
“Owen began to preach more publicly in London to a regular congregation; and his venerable friend, Joseph Caryl, having died soon after the declaration of indulgence, the congregations of the two ministers consented to unite under the ministry of Owen, in the place of worship in Leadenhall Street.”
“For a time the Germans in New York assembled under his care in a disused Baptist place of worship at the corner of Delancey and Pitt Streets, and afterwards, when the lease expired, in St. Mary's church; but on 20 April, 1833, the corner-stone of a church to be dedicated to St. Nicholas, on Second”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Considering all the circumstances of Charlotte's life and death-that she was the daughter of an English clergyman, the granddaughter of an English earl, and that her father, on hearing of her forlorn condition, came to America from England, and was present at her death and funeral-what would have been more natural than that she should be buried in the churchyard of what was the most prominent Church of England place of worship in the city?”
“High on a lofty hill before us stands a large frame-building, the place of worship as well as the principal school-house of the settlement.”
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
“I had but three colored brethren who united with me in erecting a place of worship -- Rev. Absalom Jones, William White and Darius Jinnings.”
“And also for the aforesaid consideration, it is agreed that the payment of the principal of said loan shall never be demanded so long as the property located as described in the foregoing recitals, and now known as the place of worship of Union Bethel A.M. E. Church, shall remain in the lawful possession of members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Society itself submit to the discipline and government of the said church.”
“At the same time, twelve hundred miles away, in Rome, a long-bearded man wearing the all-black robes of a Catholic priest strode across the wide square in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the magnificent domed cathedral designed by Michelangelo, the most holy place of worship in the Roman Catholic Church.”
“In 1793, the number of serious people of colour, being greatly increased, they were of different opinions respecting the mode of religious worship; and, as many felt a strong partiality for that adopted by the Methodists, Richard Allen, with the advice of some of his brethren, proposed erecting a place of worship on his own ground, and at his own expense, as an African Methodist Meetinghouse.”
The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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