Cleveland Heights' Congregations

by Morton, Marian J.

• ISBN13: 9780738561424
• ISBN10: 0738561428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-05
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub

Summary

Since the last quarter of the 19th century, dozens of religious congregations have made their homes in Cleveland Heights. They have been Presbyterian, United Methodist, Evangelical, Roman Catholic, Jewish (Conservative, Orthodox, and Egalitarian\traditional), Unitarian Universalist, Greek Orthodox, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ, Lutheran, Christian Science, Episcopalian, African Methodist Episcopal, and Congregational and now also include a wide array of community and nondenominational churches. Sponsored by established congregations, encouraged by real estate developers and public officials, and usually welcomed by residents, churches, synagogues, and temples have fostered the suburb’s growth, sometimes maintaining and sometimes changing Cleveland Heights neighborhoods. Their houses of worship, ranging from modest renovated storefronts to stately cathedrals, have enriched the city’s landscape; their religious pluralism has nurtured ethnic, economic, and racial diversity, as well as controversy and conflict; their calls to action have sometimes aroused the community’s conscience. Religious congregations, in short, have helped to sustain the vitality of Cleveland Heights.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
Country Churches: 1875-1920	p. 9
Gothic Revivals: 1903-1928	p. 25
New Landscapes: 1890-1959	p. 47
Transformations: 1926-1963	p. 63
Colonial Revivals: 1939-1960	p. 79
Old and New Congregations: 1963-2008	p. 103
Bibliography	p. 126
Index	p. 127
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