July 24, 2008
This Old House of the Lord
A Philadelphia charity helps save deteriorating religious buildings
The grand stone building that houses Calvary United Methodist Church had stood at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia since 1906. But by the early 1990s, it had fallen into disrepair, and the church's membership had shrunk to a few dozen. Overwhelmed by responsibilities and weak finances, church leaders reluctantly decided to sell their historic home and start over, in a cheaper place.
But the church didn't sell in three years on the market, even at a discounted
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