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[Church of the Nazarene]
Built at Wilson Avenue and Cleveland Street in 1958. This church closed on July 10, 2011. -
[Bristol Assembly of God]
Located at the corner of Walnut and Wood Streets. -
[Postcard of First Baptist Church]
Written on back: “Church I attended First Baptist Church Bristol, PA. Bertha.” -
[First Baptist Church]
First Baptist Church, Walnut and Cedar Streets. Organized in 1848, the church moved to Bristol Township in the 1970s. Currently home to the Spotlight Deliverance Temple. -
[Calvary Baptist Church]
Calvary Baptist Church, originally part of the First Baptist church located on Wood and Cedar Street. The relocated briefly to Wood and Walnut Street before moving to their Green Lane location. -
[Calvary Baptist Church]
Calvary Baptist Church, constructed in 1961. The congregation started as a part of the First Baptist of Bristol. They separated and moved to Green Lane in 1948. The building they opened in 1946 is connected to this structure by an education building and is to the right of this structure. -
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[Zion Lutheran Church]
Zion Lutheran Church, Jefferson Avenue and Wood Street. The outside of the church was altered and the entrances moved to the Wood Street side towards the back. -
[St. Paul's Episcopal Church]
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church located at Jefferson Avenue and Wood Street. Built in 1883 when a group of dissatisfied members of St. James Episcopal Church broke from that congregation. The adjacent parish house was added by 1909. St. Paul's congregation sold the property in 1924 to the Zion Lutheran Congregation and a new St. Paul’s Church was located at Randall Avenue in Bristol Township. St. Paul's is presently located on Levittown Parkway and Mill Creek Parkway. -
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[Ellis Katz, Esq., at the Bristol Jewish Center rededication of the "Little Torah"]
Katz's name is on the handle of the Torah. -
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[First night of Hanukkah at the Bristol Jewish Center]
From left: Alan Vogenberg (Treasurer of BJC), Emily Laird, Colin Ragelow. -
[Members of the Bristol Jewish Center]
From left: Jeannie H. Phillips--President, David Hyett, baby Charlie Hyett, Laura Brody Hyett--Student Rabbi, Alan Vogenberg--Treasurer, Congregation Avath Achim of Bristol Jewish Center. -
[Lettered sign outside of the Bristol Jewish Center]
Formerly located at 216 Pond Street. -
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[Bristol Jewish Center]
Bristol Jewish Center established in 1908 at 119 Pond Street. -
[Bristol Jewish Center Hanukkah Menorah display]
Hanukkah Menorah, Bristol Jewish Center, December 7, 2004. The Synagogue was built in 1949 at 216 Pond Street. The congregation was 100 years old in 2004. -
[Presbyterian Church of Our Savior]
The Presbyterian Church of Our Savior. Twentieth-century Italian immigration brought a need for Protestant Italians to have a place to worship. Starting as summer services in 1907-1909, the Presbyterian church of our Savior was dedicated in 1910 at Wood Street and Lincoln Avenue. Services were conducted in Italian. In 1966, Presbyterian authorities dissolved the church, encouraging the congregation to join with the Bristol Presbyterian Church on Radcliffe Street. This picture was taken post-1966. The building was used by a non-religious organization until fire gutted the structure and the remainder of the structure was demolished. A house was erected on this site. -
[Site of the former Presbyterian Church of Our Savior]
This house on Lincoln Avenue is on the site of the former Presbyterian Church of Our Savior. -
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[Harriman United Methodist Church]
Harriman United Methodist Church started as a YMCA-sponsored Sunday School in 1917. In 1924, this church building was erected. In 1941, the congregation was incorporated as Harriman Methodist Church. This building was removed in 1964 and a larger structure erected on the same site. The church is located on Wilson Avenue and Harrison Street in the “Harriman” section of Bristol. -
[Harriman United Methodist Church]
Harriman United Methodist Church Wilson Avenue and Harrison Street built in 1964. -
[Harriman United Methodist Church]
Newly erected Harriman United Methodist Church 1964 on the site of the 1924 building. -
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[Color postcard: St. Mark’s Catholic Church and Rectory]
St. Mark's Rectory and Church on Radcliffe Street and Lincoln Avenue. Card published by the "American News Company, New York, Leipzeig-Berlin. Leipzig Berlin Dresden Litho-Chrome. Trademark Germany."
Inscription on back from Anthony Burns [Clintonwill] WVA. Message reads: "Received your postal some time ago. [Moved] from Camden. Mrs. Watkins has been very sick. I haven't seen her for a long time has she sent you any cards lately[?] My address is [Riblew Pag.] 330. Jefferson Ave. Bristol Pa." -
[Mr. Gene Nichols, "member (not Pastor)"]
Unknown as to which church subject was a member of. -
[Mr. Paul Forster, "member"]
Unknown as to which church subject was a member of. -
[The Rev. Edward G. Yeomans]
Presbyterian minister. -
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[Sunday School class, Bristol Presbyterian Church]
Bristol Presbyterian Church basement, Lower Social Hall of the Presbyterian Church, 225 Radcliffe Street. This is thought to have been a Sunday School group. All in photo unidentified. -
"Presbyterian Choir, Bristol, PA, 1922"
Front Row (L-R) Mrs. George Bischoff, Miss Marian H. Smith, Mrs. Ada Sands, Mr. Thomas Snelson, Director; Mrs. M.D. Weagley, Organist; Mrs. Thomas Snelson, Mrs. Lottie Doane. Second Row (L-R) Mrs. Margaret Siddons, Miss Margaret Chambers, Miss laura Pope, Miss Anna Arensmeyer, Miss Clara Woolman. Top Row (L-R) Mr. Frank Ruehl, Mr. George Bischoff, Mr. Robert King, Rev. Henry Hartman. -
[Dr. Thomas Fannin, "member"]
Unknown as to which church subject was a member of. -
[Construction of Bristol M.E. Church, corner of Mulberry and Wilson Streets]
Construction of Bristol M.E. Church corner of Mulberry and Wilson Streets. Built on property purchased from Rousseau family 1895-6. Third church building--first building on Wood Street, 1803, second building on same Wood Street property, 1845. -
[Methodist Cemetery at Walnut and Pond Streets]
On front: “Clay Beatty Post 73. conducting funeral service in...”
H. Clay BEATTY Post. No 73. G. A. R., Bristol. Methodist cemetery at Walnut and Pond Streets. The cemetery was relocated in 1951 to Bristol Cemetery. The Bristol Methodist Church was founded in 1788 following preaching of Captain Thomas Webb. He had been in the Bristol Army and lost his right eye in a battle against the French in Canada. This is the rear of the second building of the congregation. It was built in 1845 and used by the congregation until 1895 when a new building was erected at Mulberry and Cedar Street. An A&P supermarket replaced the cemetery. -
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