This section includes media of historical churches and religious institutions in South Carolina.
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The Catholic Church did not enjoy the original toleration that characterized other non-Anglican forms of worship in South Carolina. The first mass was not celebrated in Charleston until 1789. But by...
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Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church, in Chester County, was organized in 1752. This photograph was taken around 1917-1918. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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"The Monument of DeKalb who fell fighting bravely in defense of the rights of man on the plains of Camden, SC, August 16th, 1780. Erected in the town of Camden. Front of the Presbyterian Church: the...
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This engraving, done in the 1850s, identifies Reverend E.E. Pressly as Pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Due West, Abbeville County. The Associate Reformed denomination of...
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The staff of the "Baptist Courier" in front of their office in the 1930s. Courtesy of Furman University.
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Postcard view of the El Bethel Methodist Church in Spartanburg - "The One Day Church" - built in one day on May 1, 1912. These photos show the progress of construction in the morning and afternoon...
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High Hills Baptist Church in Stateburg, in Sumter County, is the second oldest Baptist congregation in the state. Organized in 1770, its first pastor was Richard Furman, one of the founders of the...
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Bishop Reverdy Ransom (seated), Mrs. Ransom, and the State Presiding Elders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1932. Morris Brown, a free African-American, formed Charleston's Emmanuel...
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This photograph of the Circular Congregational Church was taken in the 1930s. The congregation was founded as the first Dissenter church in the colony of South Carolina in the 1680s or 1690s, and...
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An island church on John Joyner Smith's plantation on Port Royal, photographed around 1865 and destroyed before the turn of the century, probably served as a place of worship for slaves. Buildings...