Greater Straightaway Baptist Church, 1717 North Seventh Street, east side between Cecil B. Moore & Montgomery Avenues, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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Significance: The Greater Straightaway Baptist Church underscores the movement of various ethnic and racial groups in and out of North Philadelphia throughout its history. The church was constructed as a Jewish synagogue late in the nineteenth century and only later became a Christian house-of-worship. The building displays an architectural eclecticism that draws on Islamic and Russian Orthodox sources, as well as inventive brick patterns common throughout North Philadelphia's residential and civic building stock constructed in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.
Survey number: HABS PA-6693
Building/structure dates: ca. 1888 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work
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