A Sacred Piece of Home: Washington, D.C.

Shaping the Federal City

Maryland chartered as a Colony for English Catholics in 1632 and its Edict of Tolerance. Hamburg – an early German settlement. Independence and founding of Federal City along with a church for Irish laborers. Jews arrive, build first synagogues in the 1800s. History and growth of AME churches. Neo-classical architecture as preferred style for nation’s capital: the New Jerusalem and New Rome.

Shaping the Federal City

26m 49s

Maryland chartered as a Colony for English Catholics in 1632 and its Edict of Tolerance. Hamburg – an early German settlement. Independence and founding of Federal City along with a church for Irish laborers. Jews arrive, build first synagogues in the 1800s. History and growth of AME churches. Neo-classical architecture as preferred style for nation’s capital: the New Jerusalem and New Rome.

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