This is the original chapel of the now multi-block large College Park United Methodist Church in Orlando. It was built in 1944 as the original chapel. Later more structures were added, including a larger chapel. It’s now used for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Building the Methodist Church, St Cloud, 1909. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services.
The Methodist Church in St. Cloud gets built in 1909 at the corner of 10th Street and Ohio Avenue. this is the back of the church. Posing is the volunteer construction crew. Behind them is a tent used by the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry Flagler donated three lots of land to have this first Methodist Church built in Miami in 1898. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Miami’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3LzdaQ1 .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services: Prince of Peace Church, St Augustine.
The Prince of Peace and the giant cross are still a visible site to see in Saint Augustine.This is a postcard that is undated and rather hard to tell from this image. There is extensive new landscaping and other small[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was 17 members of the Clearwater community who came together in 1891 to start the Clearwater Presbyterian Church. Today it’s known as the Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church. This is a postcard mailed June 6th, 1944 from William Christie, 718[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a service at Penney Memorial Chapel in Penney Farms, near Jacksonville, in the 1920s. This photo is from ‘Parade of Memories – A History of Clay County, Florida’ by Arch Fredric Blakey. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The First Assembly of God began in Bagdad, very near Milton in the Panhandle, by a group calling itself the “Sanctified People” in the 1920s. The church moved a bit to another site in 1927 in a new building. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida #Sunday Services: The Little White Church, Clearwater.
The postcard of “the little white church by the sea” doesn’t have a postmark though it appears to be from around 1970. There is another “Little White Church” in Clearwater that is, these days, known as Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Sunday Services: First Baptist Church, St. Petersburg, as it once was.
Since this postcard, the First Baptist Church in St. Petersburg has moved. The nearby Episcopal church bought the property in 1990. In 1994 the building the designated as a local historic landmark. Eventually the bulk of the building was demolished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s, what was once known as, the Tourist Church in Daytona Beach. It was built in 1929 and still exists today. Now the structure is home to the Seabreeze United Church of Christ. Back at the time the building was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection…..#Church #Sunday #DaytonaBEach #FlordiaLife #Floridalifestyle
Swampy’s Sunday Services: First Methodist Church, Lakeland, about 1970.
This is the First Methodist Church of Lakeland as it was for a few decades. Recently massive construction is producing a whole new structure on the property. The postcard is not postmarked. Reading the history of the church on their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…