Showing posts with label rowhomes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rowhomes. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Crossed Out: Inner-City Churches Crumbling Before Our Eyes

You see them in the neighborhoods, stone and mortar giants rising up from rowhomes and rubble. Philadelphia`s innumerable churches seem out of place, beautifully crafted testaments to religious faith surrounded by burned-out shells and boarded-up windows. Looming over the tree at 12th Street and Lehigh Avenue is Cookman United Methodist, an 84-year-old relic.