St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church | |
St. John's United Church of Christ, July 2011 | |
Location | 314 Market St., Evansville, Indiana |
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Coordinates | 37°58′28″N87°34′28″W / 37.97444°N 87.57444°W Coordinates: 37°58′28″N87°34′28″W / 37.97444°N 87.57444°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1921 |
Architect | Capelle & Troutman |
Architectural style | Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival |
MPS | Downtown Evansville MRA |
NRHP reference # | 82000123 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 1, 1982 |
St. John's United Church of Christ, originally known as St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church, is a historic United Church of Christ church located in downtown Evansville, Indiana. St. John's Parish Hall was built in 1921, and is a Tudor Revival style brick building. [2]
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical confessional roots in the Congregational, Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,956 churches and 853,778 members. The United Church of Christ is a historical continuation of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches founded under the influence of New England Pilgrims and Puritans. Moreover, it also subsumed the third largest Reformed group in the country, the German Reformed. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC. These two denominations, which were themselves the result of earlier unions, had their roots in Congregational, Lutheran, Evangelical, and Reformed denominations. At the end of 2014, the UCC's 5,116 congregations claimed 979,239 members, primarily in the U.S. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 0.4 percent, or 1 million adult adherents, of the U.S. population self-identify with the United Church of Christ.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
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