Historic Places of Worship

<p> In St. Augustine Florida stands the replicated Mission Nombre de Dios with a 208-foot stainless steel cross marking the site of the first known Catholic mass celebrated in Florida in 1620. In Montgomery Alabama the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is known to many as the birthplace of the civil rights movement. Newport Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue dedicated in 1763 urged new leaders Washington and Jefferson to form a government which to bigotry gives no sanction to persecution no assistance.</p><p> From the Anasazi kivas of Colorado built in the 1300s to the Peace Chapel constructed in 1970 on the Canadian border this work examines the roots of 51 sites throughout the United States. Each entry provides background on the place of worship and its founders along with its location and religious affiliation. Sites include those devoted to Indian or Native American Muslim Jewish Buddhist Catholic Protestant Mormon Baha'i and other beliefs.</p>