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“ A Church with a Heart to Serve the Community for Christ”

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English: Centennial AME Zion Church, 125 Doat Street at Goembel Avenue, Buffalo, New York, September 2020. Built in 1910, the church sports a freewheeling design (the work of architect Jacob Oberkircher) that's based on the Gothic Revival but includes diverse elements liberally borrowed from other styles: the ubiquitous pointed arches and the quatrefoil patterns in the tracery of the large stained glass windows on the front and side elevations are both standard Gothic elements, but the cornice returns on the gables suggest the Greek Revival, and the pitch of the spire atop the tower is redolent of the Romanesque. It was originally the home of the Jerusalem German Evangelical Reformed Church, a congregation with roots, oddly, in Buffalo's Polish-American enclave: from the congregation's founding in 1889 until the construction of the present building, services were led by Rev. William Bollmann (who later went on to found Zoar Reformed Church on Genesee Street) and other pastors in a small frame chapel on Miller Street near Broadway. The congregation lasted until 1967, when (now called Jerusalem United Church of Christ) they merged with the aforementioned Zoar. Centennial AME Zion Church purchased the building in 1975 and has conducted their services there ever since.
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Camera location42° 54′ 35.13″ N, 78° 48′ 56.21″ W  Heading=138.8985098671° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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