St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.)

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Washington, D.C.
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caption =St. Luke's Episcopal Church
location= 1514 15th Street,N.W.

Washington, D.C.
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 54
lat_seconds = 37
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 77
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 5
long_direction = W
locmapin= District of Columbia
area =
built =1876-1880
designated=May 11, 1976
added = May 11, 1976
governing_body = St. Luke's Episcopal Church
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refnum=76002131cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

St. Luke's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located at 1514 15th Street,N.W., in Washington, D.C.. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1976.

History

In 1875, some members of St. Mary's Chapel for Colored People in Foggy Bottom and their rector, the Rev. Alexander Crummell, left St. Mary's to found St. Luke's as the first independent black Episcopal church in Washington. Construction on the church began in 1876 and was completed in 1880. The first service, though, was held on Thanksgiving Day, 1879. Calvin T. S. Brent, generally considered to be Washington's first black architect, designed the church after an Anglican church in Coventry, England. Alexander Crummell served as rector until his retirement in 1894. [ [http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=212962&attrib_id=7973 African American Heritage Trail listing for St. Luke's] ]

National Register listing

*St. Luke's Episcopal Church *** (added 1976 - Building - #76002131)
*15th and Church Sts., NW, Washington
*Historic Significance: Person
*Historic Person: Crummell,Alexander
*Significant Year: 1876, 1898
*Area of Significance: Social History, Education, Black, Literature
*Period of Significance: 1875-1899
*Owner: Private
*Historic Function: Religion
*Historic Sub-function: Religious Structure
*Current Function: Religion
*Current Sub-function: Religious Structure

ee also

* Alexander Crummell
*List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia
* St. Luke's Church (disambiguation)
* Black church

ources

* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Library of Congress American Memory, which does not permit direct links: A search for "St. Luke's" will pull up a long list which will include St Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.]

References

External links

* [http://www.event-calendars.net/EDOW/profile_new.asp?parishname=St%2E+Luke%27s%2C+Washington Diocesan Listing for St. Luke's Episcopal Church]
* [http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/jek/09/10.html Alexander Crummell]
* [http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=212962&attrib_id=7973 African American Heritage Trail listing for St. Luke's]