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The First Universalist Church of Cedar Rapids, also called the Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1875, it served the Unitarian Universalist community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA, for more than 135 years. Because of the high cost of upkeep and diminishing membership, the ...
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as The City Church, is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Christian Science began in Boston in 1866 and it was introduced to Cedar Rapids twenty years later. A Sunday School was established in 1887 and it met at the old Dows Auditorium at Third Avenue and Third Street SE.
The CFC seeks to follow Jesus in the footsteps of Francis and Clare by living simply and humbly, serving and praying with and for the marginalized members of the communities they live in, and by helping to re-build the Church in their contexts. As a contemporary expression of the Franciscan tradition, members – lay or clergy, partnered or ...
By 1962, Cedar Lane was the fourth-largest church in the denomination with 1,783 members. Cedar Lane worked to found two additional churches in the area, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville and the River Road Unitarian Universalist Church, in 1956 and 1959 respectively.
Louis Sullivan was commissioned to design the new church. Sullivan lived in Cedar Rapids from 1910-1912 while he designed the church. He designed a “Modern church for a seven-day program” [4] that included Sunday School space, a gymnasium and a sanctuary with a multi-colored glass dome in the auditorium. The building would have cost twice ...
The congregation began as a Sunday school in the northwest part of the city organized by Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. The evangelist Billy Sunday had preached a revival there and over 300 people joined the church. [2] St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, as it was then known, was established shortly afterward in February 1910.
St. Anthony's Church and School is a Romanesque Revival style church and an accompanying school at 514 West Main Street and 103 North 6th Street in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha.
Cedar is an unincorporated community in southeastern Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. It lies along Iowa Highway 23 southeast of the city of Oskaloosa, the county seat of Mahaska County. [3] Cedar has a Methodist church, Christian Reformed church, and a grain elevator.