The Church of the Messiah, located at 114 North 3rd Street in
Pulaski,
Tennessee
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, in the
United States
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, is an historic
Episcopal church that is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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. It was built in 1887 and designed by architect
George W. Quintard, the brother of
Charles Quintard, the
Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee.
History
The Church of the Messiah was established in 1834.
Its current building was consecrated on December 11, 1887, by Bishop Charles Quintard. Earlier in the year, the setting of the building's
cornerstone
The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.
Over tim ...
had been attended by more than 3,000 people, including four Episcopal bishops and a former
governor of Tennessee,
John Calvin Brown. Money for construction of the church building was donated by Brown and his wife in memory of their daughter, Daisy Brown.
[
The church building was added to the National Register on July 28, 1983.]
Current use
The Church of the Messiah is an actively functioning parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee
The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America that covers roughly Middle Tennessee. A single diocese spanned the entire state until 1982, when the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee ...
. The current Priest-in-Charge is The Rev. Jess Reeves.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Giles County, Tennessee
References
External links
Church of the Messiah website
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Churches completed in 1887
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Churches in Giles County, Tennessee
Messiah
In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias (; ,
; ,
; ) is a saviour or liberator of a group of people. The concepts of '' mashiach'', messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible, in which a ''mashiach ...
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Giles County, Tennessee