Saint John's Baptist Church, 123 Butler Street, The Burg.
A pretty little building:)
UPDATE:
I can find little or nothing on this Church on the internet
or my records, if this was your Church, please tell us about
it.
UPDATE2: Carlo adds:
Hi Mack, This little church originally was St. John's Italian
Baptist Church. When the early Italian immigrants flocked to
America at the beginning of the 20th Century, many Protestant
churches attempted to attract them to their faith and away from
the Catholic Church of their homeland. Here in Trenton the vast
majority of Italians remained or returned to the Catholic Faith,
but a small number did become Protestant, hence the start of a
small congregation at St. John's. Another Italian Protestant
church was Emmanuel Presbyterian on Whittaker Ave. With the
founding of St. Joachim Parish in 1901 and the opening of St.
Joachim School in 1910 with the Italian Sisters, Religious
Teachers Filippini at the helm, the great majority of Italian
children were educated in the Catholic faith and most remained
and to this day are Catholic. Hope this helps answer your
question. :)
Thank You Carlo:)
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I had to reboot this post:)
Hi Mack, This little church originally was St. John's Italian
Baptist Church. When the early Italian immigrants flocked to America at the beginning of the
20th Century, many Protestant
churches attempted to attract them
to their faith and away from the
Catholic Church of their homeland.
Here in Trenton the vast majority
of Italians remained or returned to the Catholic Faith, but a small
number did become Protestant, hence
the start of a small congregation at St. John's. Another Italian Protestant church was Emmanuel
Presbyterian on Whittaker Ave. With
the founding of St. Joachim Parish in 1901 and the opening of St. Joachim School in 1910 with the Italian Sisters, Religious Teachers Filippini at the helm, the
great majority of Italian children
were educated in the Catholic faith
and most remained and to this day are Catholic. Hope this
helps answer your question. :)
Thank You Carlo:)
I will add this to the post.
This comment adds the correct
context to view St Johns within
the Burg.
Still I do wish someone who was
a member of this little church
would give us a bit of its history
as I find literally nothing about
it on the internet:)
Mack:
A little humor. As I said in another post my Mother was born on Mott Street and tells me that they used to call this the "Hot Dog Church". Apparently they gave away Hot Dogs in hopes that they would join the church.
JoeB~
My mother used to tell us the same thing about the Hot Dog Church...
I also remember being called the "hot dog" church. In fact, an entire branch of my family did indeed become part of the congregation.
I went to this church when I was very young, in fact my mother and step-father were married there by a Rev. Bolognase. I remember him and his wife very well and have quite a few pictures of them someplace.
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