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Reformation · CatholicMission San Xavier del BacTohono O’odham Nation near Tucson, Arizona, United StatesMission established 1692; present church 1783–1797The white mission church of Wa:k, built within Tohono O’odham homeland and sustained as a living parish beyond romantic images of Spanish colonial architecture.Read the full history Reformation · EpiscopalOld North ChurchBoston, Massachusetts, United States1723Boston’s oldest surviving church building, known for the 1775 lantern signal and increasingly interpreted through Anglican, revolutionary, maritime, and slavery histories.Read the full history Modern & Global · CatholicSan Fernando CathedralSan Antonio, Texas, United StatesFrom c. 1750San Fernando Cathedral connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through a Canary Islander parish and Texas cathedral shaped by mission frontier, Mexican and American rule, Tejano community, Alamo memory, renovation, and bilingual worshipRead the full history Reformation · CatholicMission San Carlos Borromeo de CarmeloCarmel-by-the-Sea, California, United StatesMission founded 1770; Carmel site established 1771Junípero Serra’s California headquarters and burial church, requiring an account of Franciscan mission, Indigenous labor, coercion, devotion, loss, and survival.Read the full history Modern & Global · African American Baptist heritageAfrican Meeting HouseBoston, United StatesFrom c. 1806African Meeting House connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through the oldest surviving Black church building in the United States, a site of worship, school, abolition, community organizing, preservation, and public historyRead the full history Modern & Global · Baptist — historically Black churchAbyssinian Baptist ChurchHarlem, New York City, United StatesCongregation founded 1808; present building opened 1923A pioneering Black Baptist congregation founded in resistance to segregation and shaped into a major Harlem center of worship, politics, education, and care.Read the full history Modern & Global · African Methodist EpiscopalMother Emanuel AME ChurchCharleston, South Carolina, United StatesCongregation founded in 1818; present church completed in 1891The historic Charleston congregation whose life spans Black religious independence, resistance, suppression, rebuilding, and costly witness.Read the full history Modern & Global · EpiscopalTrinity Church Wall StreetNew York City, United StatesFrom c. 1846Trinity Church Wall Street connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through a colonial-era parish on valuable land with successive buildings, cemetery, finance-district ministry, philanthropy, slavery reckoning, September 11 response, and worshipRead the full history Modern & Global · African Methodist EpiscopalBrown Chapel AME ChurchSelma, Alabama, United StatesCongregation founded 1866; present building completed 1908The AME church that sheltered Selma’s voting-rights campaign and launched the marches whose discipline, violence, faith, and national witness changed federal law.Read the full history Modern & Global · Baptist16th Street Baptist ChurchBirmingham, Alabama, United StatesCongregation founded in 1873; present church completed in 1911The Birmingham church that served the freedom movement and endured the 1963 bombing that killed four girls.Read the full history Modern & Global · Baptist — historically Black churchDexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist ChurchMontgomery, Alabama, United StatesCongregation founded 1877; present church dedicated 1889The Montgomery church Martin Luther King Jr. pastored during the bus boycott, where worship, organizing, mass meetings, and nonviolent strategy converged.Read the full history Modern & Global · CatholicSaint Patrick’s CathedralNew York City, United StatesFrom c. 1879Saint Patrick’s Cathedral connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through an immigrant Catholic cathedral opposite centers of wealth, built through mass giving and patronage, hosting liturgy, protest, funerals, restoration, and tourismRead the full history Modern & Global · BaptistEbenezer Baptist ChurchAtlanta, Georgia, United StatesCongregation founded in 1886; Heritage Sanctuary completed in 1922The Atlanta congregation that formed Martin Luther King Jr. and became a pulpit of the modern freedom struggle.Read the full history Modern & Global · PentecostalAzusa Street Mission SiteLos Angeles, California, United StatesApostolic Faith Mission occupied 312 Azusa Street from 1906The humble Los Angeles mission associated with the multiracial revival that helped Pentecostal Christianity become a global movement.Read the full history Modern & Global · EpiscopalWashington National CathedralWashington, District of Columbia, United States1907–1990The Episcopal cathedral conceived as a national house of prayer, hosting worship, presidential funerals, public mourning, justice debates, and interfaith ceremony.Read the full history Modern & Global · CatholicBasilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate ConceptionWashington, DC, United StatesFrom c. 1920Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through a national pilgrimage church built over decades with chapels representing global Catholic communities, mosaic programs, episcopal ceremony, and university settingRead the full history Modern & Global · Interdenominational ProtestantThe Riverside ChurchNew York City, United States1930A Rockefeller-funded Gothic tower church whose pulpit connected liberal Protestant theology with civil rights, peace activism, social services, and global debate.Read the full history