On San Marcos Avenue in St. Augustine, Florida, stands the
replicated Mission Nombre de Dios. Towering over the mission is a
208-foot stainless steel cross marking the site of the first known
Catholic mass celebrated in Florida in 1620. A few hundred miles to
the north in Montgomery, Alabama, sits the Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church, known to many as the birthplace of the civil rights
movement. Newport, Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue, dedicated in
1763, urged new leaders Washington and Jefferson to form a
government ""which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no
assistance."" From the pre-Columbian Anasazi kivas of Colorado
built in the 1300s to the Peace Chapel constructed in 1970 on the
Canadian border, this work examines the roots of 51 historic sites
throughout the United States. Each entry provides detailed
background material on the place of worship and those who
established it, along with its location and religious affiliation.
Sites include those devoted to Indian or Native American, Muslim,
Jewish, Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Baha'i, and other
beliefs. The essays also place the church or site into an
historical perspective, tracing how their foundings impacted the
development of the United States.
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