'Turned out that this fire, like the one that took down Adler and Sullivan’s Pilgrim Baptist Church in Bronzeville in 2006 was caused by maintenance work. In this case, a roofer’s torch gone awry.' | DeannaIsaacs
What kind of God allows a church to burn down on Good Friday?
Antioch’s pastor, the Reverend Gerald Dew, had a different, more positive take on it. Faced with an inferno, he saw opportunity. Turned out that this fire, like the one that took down Adler and Sullivan’s Pilgrim Baptist Church in Bronzeville in 2006 , was caused by maintenance work. In this case, a roofer’s torch gone awry. The damage to Antioch’s imposing Romanesque building, designed by Bell & Swift for a previous Baptist congregation and home to the current one since 1958, was so severe that the city ordered that the massive structure be taken down immediately.
A couple of Chicagoans are featured in the documentary: architect RaMona Westbrook, talking briefly about the Black history depicted in stained glass windows at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois Tech College of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff, who notes, among many other things, that the idea of a single national church representing everyone—as in the Washington National Cathedral, a Gothic Revival masterpiece that took 83 years to complete—is an irony in a country founded...
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