Calvary Baptist Church Building
Calvary Baptist Church was erected in 1846 in the Gothic revival architectural style. Upon redundancy, it was controlled by Yale University, which was already served by a nondenominational chapel.
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Famous quotes containing the words calvary, baptist, church and/or building:
“shows its berries red
In token of the drops of blood
Which on Calvary were shed.”
—Unknown. The Holly and the Ivy (l. 10–12)
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Ron Taffel (20th century)