Christian Places

Dunker Church, a meeting house for the German Baptist Brethren who lived in the Sharpsburg area, was the focal point of repeated clashes during the Battle of Antietam as both the Union and Confederate armies sought to occupy and hold the high ground around it.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2020, All Souls Church, Unitarian has a rich architectural and social history. From the Civil War when it sought to define itself by its anti-slavery agenda, to more firmly establishing itself as a church with a social justice agenda during the civil rights era and finally to embracing its role as a “Welcoming Congregation,” All Souls has been in the forefront of the city and nation’s social issues.

The Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. The church is historically significant as a space for progressive activism and ministry for the neighborhood’s LGBT, Black, and Asian American communities in the 1960s and 1970s.

St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church was the first Catholic Church in Brookline. Today, the Church holds JFK’s Baptismal font, which the Catholic Archdiocese moved from St. Aidan’s Church.

Built in 1891, the Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion church represented a place of worship and a cornerstone of Auburn’s Black community. Harriet Tubman, a prominent member of this community, worshipped at this church alongside her family. The church became Tubman’s final resting place when she passed away in 1913. Registered as a National Historic Landmark in 1974, the church building was purchased by the National Park Service in 2017.

Patapsco Camp, located near Elkridge, Maryland, was the first worksite in the Civilian Public Service program. This World War II-era initiative provided an opportunity for meaningful wartime work for conscientious objectors who refused to enter the military because of religious commitments to peace.

With the earliest burial in 1827, the Joseph Bailly Cemetery is the oldest Euro-American cemetery in Porter County, Indiana. Reflecting its appearance from 1914, the cemetery is part of the Bailly Homestead National Historic Landmark, designated in 1962.