A photograph of the Eleventh Street Church of Christ. This church is located at 1100 Shelby Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Foundation material is red brick. Exterior walls are brick. The roof is composed of tar shingles. Windows are a...
A slave deed bill of sale, witnessed on April 22, 1848, regarding the transfer of a slave from Robert Glass to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee. The document states that Glass sold to William Harrison, Jr. a "man called Sam...
A photograph of Woodmont Baptist Church located at 2100 Woodmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1941. The architecture style is Gothic. The foundation is made of brick. The exterior walls are tan brick with stone...
A photograph of Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church, historically located at 2336 Herman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The current city directory lists the address as 2334 Herman Street. With the congregation originally founded in 1903,...
Photograph of Grace Evangelical Church, currently an Ethiopian Christian church located at 3701 Park Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly the historic Park Avenue Church of Christ, this church building changed hands in 1993, becoming Korean...
A photograph of Ivy Memorial Baptist Church located at 425 Trinity Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. This church first appeared in the 1950 city directory as Ivy Chapel Baptist Church. Today it still stands at the same address. The foundation is...
A photograph of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church located at 19 Hart Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in approximately 1894 as Mount Gilead Baptist Church. In 1981, the name changed to Prince of Peace Baptist Church, but...
A photograph of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church located at 2416 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was founded in 1871 by Rev. Pharoah Benson, a former slave. The first church was built right across the street from the present day...
A photograph of Old Hickory Presbyterian Church located at 801 Jones Street in Old Hickory. This church is situated in the heart of Historic Old Hickory Village. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks. The exterior walls are made of...
A photograph of Pleasant Green Baptist Church, also referred to as Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist. This historically African American church is located at 1410 Jefferson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The architect for the project was L....
A photograph of Progressive Missionary Baptist Church located at 1419 Twelfth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1936 while the building construction was finished in 1941. The church has been listed as Progressive Missionary Baptist...
A photograph of Ray of Hope Community Church, formerly Meridian Street Methodist Church, located at 901 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The rear part of the building was completed in 1925, while the front part, now the current sanctuary,...
A photograph of St. Ann's Episcopal Church located at 419 Woodland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The original historic 1880's era Victorian building was destroyed in a tornado in 1998, but the new building was built on the same site as the old...
A photograph of St. Augustine Episcopal Chapel located at 200 Twenty-fourth Avenue South on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. This West End neighborhood chapel was started in the mid 1950s with seed money from nearby St....
A photograph of West Nashville United Methodist Church located at 4710 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was organized as the West Side Mission around 1880. Their first chapel was built under the name of Clifton Methodist...
A photograph of West End United Methodist Church located at 2200 West End Avenue in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This church was the third building for the congregation that organized in 1869. Donald W. Southgate was the...
A photograph of Word of Faith Christian Center located at 2635 Nolensville Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly Grandview Baptist Church, the address was originally listed in the city directory as 2641 Nolensville Road. Grandview Baptist was...
A photograph of Belmont Church, now located at 64 Music Square East. Originally the church was called Belmont Avenue Church of Christ and had an address of 64 Sixteenth Avenue South. While today the church has a non-denominational congregation,...
A photograph of the Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church located at 319 Fifteenth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building was built in 1925 by the nation's first African-American-owned architectural firm,...
A photograph of Concordia Lutheran Church located at 3501 Central Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1937. The foundation is stone. The exterior walls are brick. The roof is gabled and comprised of asphalt shingles. The...