Har Sinai Church of Christ is located in a historic church building that was originally Broadway Presbyterian Church and then Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church (for more than 75 years) in

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.History of Baltimore City and County
from the Earliest Period to the Present Day: Including Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men by John Thomas Scharf L.H. Everts, 1881 page 548The Lutheran, Volume 7, Lutheran Church in America, 1969 It was built as a

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on the southwest corner of Gough Street and Broadway in

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Broadway Presbyterian Church

The

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of Broadway Presbyterian Church was laid in a ceremony August 13, 1843.

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was one of those in attendance. The church opened in January 1846 with Rev. John C. Backus presiding. Thomas E. Peck was installed as the first pastor. He later served as pastor of another church and became a professor at Hampden Sydney College in Virginia.

Grace English Lutheran

In 1887 the church was purchased and became Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church.History of Baltimore, Maryland, from Its Founding as a Town to the Current Year, 1729-1898
Including Its Early Settlement and Development; a Description of Its Historic and Interesting Localities; Political, Military, Civil, and Religious Statistics; Biographies of Representative Citizens, Etc., Etc by Henry Elliot Shepherd S.B. Nelson, 1898 page 343 In the mid-1960s much of the congregation had moved to the suburbs.

Contemporary times

The brick church building appears to remain standing. A Broadway Presbyterian Church is active in another location. The church building is now identified as St. Augustine English Lutheran Church Baltimore and Har Sinai Church of Christ, a

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church.

Broadway Presbyterian Church

Grace English Lutheran

Contemporary times

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