File:Saints Tabernacle COGIC - fmr Zoar Reformed Church, Loquen Memorial AME Church - Buffalo, New York - 20200919.jpg

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English: Saints Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, 1293 Genesee Street at Rohr Street, Buffalo, New York, September 2020. A work of Jacob Oberkircher, the somewhat unusual architecture of the church takes a standard Carpenter Gothic-style design, replete with pointed arches and many other features of the style, and adds the contrasting Classical motif of broken pediments, which appear both in the main gable on the Genesee Street façade as well as above the entrance at left. The rather stout aspect of the tower, and the modest height of the spire (82 feet), are also at odds with expectations. The building was erected in 1906 as the second permanent home of Zoar Reformed Church, a then eleven-year-old congregation that was one of the first to be founded in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of the city, after the construction of Humboldt Parkway and what's now Martin Luther King, Jr. Park spurred the beginnings of urbanization in the vicinity. The congregation endured through various denominational mergers and was known as Zoar United Church of Christ at the time it disbanded, in 1968. In subsequent years, the building has served as home to Loquen Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church (1968-2003) and to Saints Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, which continues holding services there today.
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