In 1950 the congregation built an adjoining school; at its peak its enrollment was almost 1,000.
In 1872, the congregation built a synagogue at Ludlow and Hester Streets.
WHAT: 5,000-square-foot building HOW MUCH: $119,000 This wood-frame structure, used by a Methodist Episcopal congregation, was built in 1873 after a fire destroyed the congregation's first church.
The State of Alabama purchased the building on Monroe in 1927, and the congregation built a new synagogue on land at McDonough and High Street, a handsome, brick Rundbogenstil building, notable for its hexagonal shape, which they dedicated in 1928.
Because they had a special need for a houseboat to carry out their mission in the Peruvian Amazon, the congregation built one for them.
The congregation built a two-story wooden church on Calhoun Street, not far from Fort Sumter, where the first shots in the Civil War were fired.
The Angel Orensanz Cultural Center on Norfolk Street, for example, has held art shows and theater performances since 1987 in what had been Congregation Anshe Chesed, built in 1850 as the first Reform temple in New York.
Streetscapes, Page 7.] St. Philip's was the first major black congregation to build in Harlem, moving in 1911 from mid-Manhattan.
At Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ near downtown Spokane, built in 1893, the congregation has about 200 people, down from 2,000 a few decades ago.
The congregation moved to another building built in the Greek Revival style in 1906, and in 1964 moved to a more modern building, out of which they still operate.
