Tindley Temple United Methodist Church

The story

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Tindley Temple United Methodist Church is a church at 750-762 S Broad St in Philadelphia, built in 1923-1928 to designs by Ballinger & Company in the Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals style.

Why it's listed

Listed in the National Register in 2011 under criteria A, B and D, with national-level significance in Black ethnic heritage and social history. Its significance runs from 1924 to the 1933 death of Reverend Charles Albert Tindley, who returned as pastor in 1902.

Physical character

The brick and limestone walls stand on a concrete foundation, with Romanesque round-arch grouped windows and flat asphalt roofs with parapets. Inside are an M. P. Möller organ, a baptismal pool, a reinforced concrete balcony and a stained glass window depicting a black Madonna. An addition on the south side designed by A. Hensel Fink was built in 1962-1963, and a partition was inserted in the 1960s.

Historical context

The congregation acquired the Westminster Presbyterian Church building in 1905, was known as Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church from 1907 and East Calvary Methodist Church from 1914, and took the name Tindley Temple in 1927. Tindley founded the Second Emancipation League in 1912, and the 69th Annual Delaware Conference met at the church in 1932.