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Colorized photo image of St. Mary's Church. Location-500 Market Street. The church building was completed and dedicated, July 31, 1871. Well known for the matched set of three working tower bells. The bells were cast in Baltimore, Maryland by the…

Colorized photo image of the First Presbyterian Church. Location-221 Court Street, corner of 3rd (Third) & Court Streets. Dedicated for worship, 1851. The oldest church building in Portsmouth. In 1973 the church building was added to the National…

Colorized photo image of the All Saints Episcopal Church located at 610 Fourth (4th) Street. Built in 1850, it was the first public building in Portsmouth to use gaslights in 1855. The building survived an interior fire in 1893 and extensive flood…

Colorized photo image of the Evangelical United Church of Christ located at 701 Fifth (5th) Street. In 1852 the original congregation was composed of German Protestant immigrants. The church building was completed and dedicated in 1887.

Colorized photo image of the Bigelow Church located at 415 Washington Street. Originally Bigelow United Methodist, erected 1857-1858, dedicated 1859. Partially destroyed by fire in 1859 and again in 1867, re-occupied in 1869. The building survived…

Colorized photo image of the Evangel Temple Assembly of God Church located at 802 Gay Street. The church was built and dedicated in 1925 as the B'Nai Abraham Jewish Temple. In 1975 the building was sold to the First Evangel Assembly of God.…

Colorized photo image of the Second Presbyterian Church located at 801 Waller Street. Original buildings, located at Eighth (8th) & Waller Streets, were dedicated in 1875 when the First Presbyterian Church needed expansion due to a growing…

Colorized photo image of the Allen Chapel African American Episcopal Church. The church was organized in 1837, present church at 12th (Twelfth) & Waller Street, dedicated on February 20, 1921

Colorized photo image of the Pleasant Green Baptist Church located at 421 Waller Street. The church was organized around the year 1865 by a small group of people from the Allen Chapel.

Colorized photo image of the Calvary Baptist Church located at 1118 Hutchins. Original base building built 1903, dedicated in 1904. Later additions and a re-dedication occurred in 1922. Further additions and remodeling through the years as the…

Color photo image of Calvary Chapel located at 1530 Franklin Avenue. Originally, it was built in 1917 as the Franklin Avenue Methodist Church.

Color photo image of the First Lutheran Church, located at 1501 Grandview Avenue.