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Black Forest Community Church

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 14:45, last changed on 12/09/2018 - 16:43
The Black Forest Community Church occupies a row of three buildings on the southeast corner of Shoup and Black Forest Roads in the rural community of Black Forest in northern El Paso County . The church had its origins in a Sunday school started in 1932, with members incorporating a church...

Capilla de San Isidro

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:16, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Built in about 1894, Capilla de San Isidro is a Catholic church in Los Fuertes in the San Luis Valley . The church is dedicated to St. Isidore, the patron saint of farming, and continues to play an important role in the local community, with Mass celebrated in Spanish during the summer. In 2013 the...

Capilla de San Juan Bautista (Church of Saint John the Baptist)

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:21, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in La Garita in the northwestern San Luis Valley , Capilla de San Juan Bautista was built in 1924–26 as a Catholic mission church. It replaced an earlier church on the same site, which served as the area’s parish church from 1879 to 1895 but burned down in 1924. After the church was...

Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception

Added by yongli on 08/26/2016 - 16:12, last changed on 03/04/2021 - 01:07
Completed in 1912, the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, on East Colfax Avenue in Denver , was the result of decades of effort on the part of the city’s early Catholic community. Sometimes called the “Pinnacled Glory of the West,” the building’s elegant Gothic Revival design and twin...

Emmanuel Shearith Israel Chapel

Added by yongli on 10/10/2016 - 12:09, last changed on 08/09/2018 - 01:07
Located at what was once the corner of Tenth and Lawrence Streets in the middle of the Auraria Higher Education Center , Emmanuel Shearith Israel Chapel is the oldest surviving religious building in Denver . Built in 1876–77 as the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, the building was sold in 1903 to the...

First Baptist Church of Moffat

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 13:13, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
The First Baptist Church of Moffat is a two-story concrete-block building constructed in 1911 at the corner of Fourth and Lincoln Streets (401 Lincoln Avenue, Moffat, Colorado). In the 1920s, residents bought the church from the Baptist Association to prevent it from being moved after the shrinking...

German Congregational Zion Church (Zion United Church of Christ)

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 14:25, last changed on 11/18/2019 - 12:32
The German Congregational Zion Church of Sterling (428 Chestnut St, Sterling, CO 80751) was established by Germans from Russia in 1911, and the church building itself was constructed in 1926–27. The oldest church in Sterling founded by the German Russian community, it helped immigrants hold on to...

Handy Chapel

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 15:50, last changed on 01/11/2018 - 01:07
Built in 1892 in downtown Grand Junction , Handy Chapel (200 White Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81501) is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church but is legally owned by the black citizens of the city. In more than 120 years of existence, the chapel has served the community primarily as a...

Holy Ghost Catholic Church

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 10:51, last changed on 12/22/2019 - 01:07
Located at 1900 California Street in Denver , Holy Ghost Catholic Church is known for its long tradition of ministering to downtown Denver’s poor and homeless, as well as for its Renaissance-style church building designed in 1923 by Jules Jacques Benois Benedict . For nearly twenty years, however,...

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 11:01, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in Chama in the San Luis Valley , Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción (Church of the Immaculate Conception) is a Catholic church built in 1938 under the supervision of Father Onofre Martorell . It continues to serve as an important community center, with Mass celebrated in Spanish during...

Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:24, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in San Francisco in the southeastern San Luis Valley , Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi is a Catholic church featuring Gothic and Mission Revival elements. Constructed in the 1950s using concrete blocks and casement windows, the building shows how the local parish adapted modern building...

Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 11:49, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in San Pedro in the San Luis Valley , Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo (Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) is a Catholic church built in 1933–34 under the supervision of Father Onofre Martorell . The cruciform-plan Territorial Adobe building continues to serve as an important community...

Peoples Presbyterian Church

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:02, last changed on 11/09/2022 - 14:41
Peoples Presbyterian Church was founded in June 1906 and is Denver ’s oldest continuously active black Presbyterian congregation. In 1908 the congregation acquired its first permanent home at the former First Cumberland Presbyterian building a few blocks south of Five Points , which was then...

San Rafael Presbyterian Church

Added by yongli on 11/21/2016 - 16:27, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in Mogote in the southern San Luis Valley ( 4907 Co Rd 9, Antonito, CO 81120), San Rafael Presbyterian Church was probably built in 1895–97 and used regularly until 1965. It is the second-oldest church in Conejos County and one of the few historically Spanish-speaking Presbyterian churches...

St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 16:43, last changed on 05/07/2020 - 10:36
Located at what was once the corner of Ninth and Lawrence Streets (101 Lawrence Way, Denver , CO 80204) in the Auraria Higher Education Center , St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church was built in 1926 to serve the Latino community of west Denver. The first church for Spanish-speaking Catholics in Denver,...

St. Francis of Assisi Mission Church

Added by yongli on 11/22/2016 - 12:37, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Built in 1881, St. Francis of Assisi Mission Church is a Catholic church in Los Valdeses, a town along the Rio Grande about halfway between Del Norte and Monte Vista . One of the few Hispano churches in the San Luis Valley with a cruciform plan, St. Francis of Assisi held regular Masses until the...

St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral

Added by yongli on 06/29/2021 - 16:51, last changed on 10/30/2021 - 10:53
St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral (1350 Washington Street, Denver ) was the first Episcopal congregation in Colorado and serves as the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado. The 1911 cathedral is a fine example of the Late English Gothic style, and the entire cathedral complex occupies a full...

St. Leo’s Catholic Church

Added by yongli on 12/01/2021 - 16:56, last changed on 12/06/2021 - 09:30
Between 1888 and 1965, St. Leo’s Catholic Church at Tenth Street and West Colfax Avenue in West Denver was the primary center of worship for Irish Catholics in the city. From the time it was built, St. Leo’s faced controversy over its role in enforcing the cultural and ethnic divisions of early...

Trinity United Methodist Church

Added by yongli on 10/28/2021 - 12:57, last changed on 10/28/2021 - 12:57
Amid the high-rises and parking lots of downtown Denver , Trinity United Methodist Church (1820 Broadway) is one of the few surviving churches. Since 1888 it has played a major role in the city’s religious, political, civic, cultural, and architectural history. The finest design of Colorado’s first...

Zion Baptist Church

Added by yongli on 08/30/2016 - 09:35, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
Organized by former slaves on November 15, 1865, Zion Baptist Church is the oldest black congregation in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West. Since 1913, the church has occupied a large Romanesque Revival building at 933 East Ogden Street in Five Points , which was originally built in the early...
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