If you’re looking for a lovely way to celebrate Valentine’s day early, two local churches are offering wonderful opportunities to have a great time and to support the community. Both are happening on Saturday, February 9. If you’re into it, you could even try to make it to both events: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church: […]
Last week, we looked at the Second Baptist Church, located at 4th Street and Virginia Avenue since the early days of Washington D.C. It was one of the many quiet churches that saw to its parishioners’ spiritual interests with no fuss throughout most of the 19th Century. That would change in with the early 1880s with the […]
I wrote last week of the first Ebenezer church on 4th Street SE. Today we will look at its replacement – a building that is still standing. It is unsurprising that a church built in 1811 would have become out of date and unusable by 1857. This is exactly what happened to Ebenezer. In spite of […]
I wrote recently about Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and the modern church that replaced it on Seward Square. Today I want to look at one of its predecessors – the original Ebenezer Church on 4th Street, between South Carolina Avenue and G Street SE. Methodism first took root on Capitol Hill in 1802. After nine years and a […]
We’re going to ignore for one (cold) second that it’s supposed to snow on Friday and instead we’ll choose to concentrate on the fact that SPRING is coming. And along with spring, Easter egg hunts and celebrations are popping up all over the Hill. This Sunday, the Waterfront Church, 140 L Street SE, invites you […]