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Downtown Presbyterian Church is one of the few examples of Egyptian Revival architecture in the United States, and may be the best surviving ecclesiastical example. William Strickland also designed the second Mikveh-Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia in 1825 with Egyptian Revival elements, but it has not survived.
Downtown Presbyterian Church of Nashville: 1848–49 1993 Nashville, TN: Egyptian Revival: Presbyterian: Christ Episcopal Church, Raleigh ... Church of the Holy Cross ...
Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt.It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, and Admiral Nelson's defeat of the French Navy at the Battle of the Nile later that year.
He also made use of Egyptian, Saracenic and Italianate styles. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where his Egyptian-influenced design of the First Presbyterian Church (now the Downtown Presbyterian Church) was controversial but today is widely recognized as a masterpiece and an important evocation of the Egyptian Revival style.
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Earl's Nashville Museum opens. [9] Population: 3,000 (approximate). [10] 1820 – Christian Church built. [5] 1822 – Nashville City Cemetery established. 1823 – Presbyterian church built. [5] 1825 – Decker & Dyer Reading Room established. [8] 1826 Tennessee General Assembly relocates to Nashville from Murfreesboro. [7] Cumberland College ...