Original Cathedral in Downtown Atlanta
The first site for St. Philip's was in downtown Atlanta, across from the State Capitol on the corner of what is now Washington Street and Martin Luther King Drive. By 1875 the small church had grown to be the largest Episcopal church in Georgia, and in 1907 St. Philip's was named the Cathedral of the Diocese of Atlanta, which was formed that same year. In 1928 the Cathedral selected the Rev. Raimundo de Ovies as its new dean and began work on selecting a site for construction of a new Cathedral.
Read more about this topic: Episcopal Cathedral Of Saint Philip (Atlanta)
Famous quotes containing the words original and/or cathedral:
“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”
—Oscar Solomon Straus (1850–1926)
“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)