Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church

Coordinates: 39°6′29″N 84°31′7″W / 39.10806°N 84.51861°W / 39.10806; -84.51861
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Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church
Front of the church
Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church is located in Ohio
Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church
Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church is located in the United States
Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church
Location1205 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Coordinates39°6′29″N 84°31′7″W / 39.10806°N 84.51861°W / 39.10806; -84.51861
AreaLess than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1868
Architectural styleGerman Gothic
Part ofOver-the-Rhine Historic District (ID83001985)
NRHP reference No.73001453[1]
Added to NRHPApril 11, 1973

The Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church is a historic church building in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A German Gothic Revival structure built in 1868,[1] it was constructed as the home of the German Evangelical and Reformed Church, Cincinnati's oldest German Reformed Church. Founded in 1814, the church changed its name to "St. John's German Protestant Church" in 1874, although it remained in the German Reformed Church. This situation continued until 1924, when it departed for the American Unitarian Association and changed its name to "St. John's Unitarian Church." Little more than twenty years later, the congregation abandoned its old building, leaving it vacant until it was purchased by the present owners, a Pentecostal church.[2]

The church building is a rectangular two-

façade. Such a tower is characteristic of the German Gothic churches that this church was built to emulate, as are the transepts on either side of the tower.[2]

Located at 1205 Elm Street,

historic district,[1] and the Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church qualified as one of its hundreds of contributing properties.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 561.
  3. ^
    Ohio Historical Society
    , 2010. Accessed 2010-10-04.