Religion

Mother Helena and Abess Mother Thecla, Nuns | Original SC

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In the Sand Hills of South Carolina, on 60 acres of forest land, the Saints Mary and Martha Orthodox Monastery is home to Orthodox nuns, Mother Helena and Abess Mother Thecla. Their monastic lifestyle...

Bryan, Hugh | South Carolina Public Radio

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"B" is for Bryan, Hugh (1699-1753). Planter, evangelist. Born of the colony’s southern frontier, Bryan was captured by Indians during the Yamassee War. After his release, he settled in St. Helena’s...

Brown, Morris | South Carolina Public Radio

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"B" is for Brown, Morris (1770-1849). Clergyman. Brown, a free mulatto, was born in Charleston. He received a license to preach as a Methodist lay preacher and organized an African congregation in...

Chapin, Sarah Flournoy Moore | South Carolina Public Radio

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"C" is for Chapin, Sarah Flournoy Moore [ca. 1830-1896]. Temperance leader; social reformer. Known as Sallie F. Chapin, she became one of South Carolina's most visible 19th century women leaders...

Pike, John Martin | South Carolina Public Radio

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“P” is for Pike, John Martin [1840-1932]. Clergyman, editor, publisher. A Canadian and ordained Methodist clergyman, Pike was invited to preach at Columbia’s Washington Street Methodist Church. He...

The Second County Courthouse For Union County | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The second county courthouse for Union County, built in 1827, was photographed in 1904 shortly before it was torn down in 1908 to make way for a new courthouse. Formed from the old Ninety Six District...

The Ruins Of The Circular Congregational Church, 1865 | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

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The ruins of the Circular Congregational Church, photographed in 1865, show the devastation that fire and war brought on the city of Charleston. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Gospel Music | South Carolina Public Radio

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"G" is for Gospel Music. Gospel music as a genre consists of two major categories, White Gospel and Black Gospel. Both styles share similar musical routes that stem from the evangelical religious...

Evangel Cathedral | South Carolina Public Radio

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"E" is for Evangel Cathedral

Charismatics | South Carolina Public Radio

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"C" is for Charismatics.

Pentecostals | South Carolina Public Radio

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"P" is for Pentecostals.

Fuller, William Edward | South Carolina Public Radio

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"F" is for Fuller, William Edward [1875-1958] Clergyman.

African Methodist Episcopal Church | South Carolina Public Radio

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“A” is for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The African Methodist Episcopal Church [A.M.E.] is the oldest African American denomination in the country. In 1817, the efforts of white Methodists...

Asian Religions | South Carolina Public Radio

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"A" is for Asian Religions.

Fundamentalists | South Carolina Public Radio

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“F” is for Fundamentalists. The designation “fundamentalists” is an umbrella term that takes in many theologically conservative, evangelical Protestants from several denominations and independent...

Grave-Site Decoration | South Carolina Public Radio

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“G” is for Grave-Site Decoration. West Africans transported to South Carolina as slaves had their own belief system regarding death, burial, and the power of the living and the dead. Shiny or...

Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church | South Carolina Public Radio

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"A" is for Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Dubose, William Porcher | South Carolina Public Radio

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“D” is for DuBose, William Porcher [1836-1918]. Professor, theologian. DuBose studied for the ordained ministry at the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South...

Beth Elohim | South Carolina Public Radio

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"B" is for Beth Elohim - Charleston, S.C.

AME Zion Church | South Carolina Public Radio

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“A” is for African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The A.M.E. Zion church is on of the seventh largest black denominations. It had its beginnings in New York in the early 19th century and by the...

Baptists | South Carolina Public Radio

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"B" is for Baptists.

Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia | History of SC Slide Collection

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Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, designed by Edward Brickell White (see The Dock Street Theater And St. Philip's Church), built in 1840-1847, in the English Gothic style of architecture. The...

The Dock Street Theater and St. Philip's Church | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Dock Street Theater and St. Philip's Church, as they appeared in the 1940s. The parish of St. Philip's, founded in the 1680s on what is now the site of St. Michael's, was the first Anglican parish...

Interior of Old Goose Creek Church | History of SC Slide Collection

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Interior of Old Goose Creek Church, showing the British royal arms over the altar. One of the earliest church buildings in South Carolina, its design is said to have been inspired by the stucco...