{"id":51,"ordinal":0,"featured":0,"title":"The Churches of Tremont","creator":"CSU Center for Public History + Digital Humanities","description":"<p>Nearly two dozen churches are hallowed evidence of Tremont’s deep ethnic roots. The area—originally part of Brooklyn Township—was settled by New England Puritans. These people built homes along Jennings Avenue (now West 14th Street) and founded Pilgrim Congregational Church. In the 19th Century, the neighborhood became home to a large number of Irish, who founded Saint Augustine Parish, and Germans, who built Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church and Zion United Church of Christ. In the early 20th century, immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and the Middle East—including Greeks, Poles, Slovaks, Ukrainians and Syrians—settled in Tremont. These immigrants built more houses of worship, such as Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Holy Ghost Church (Rusyn), Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church (Antioch refers to parts of modern-day Turkey and Syria). Later in the century, older structures were repurposed to serve growing populations such as African-American and Hispanic. These houses of worship include Scranton Road Bible Church, Spanish Assembly of God Church, and Saint Andrew Kim Korean Catholic Church. Still more structures are in various stages of secular repurposing, such as Our Lady of Mercy (now an office complex), Zion (converting to a residential complex), and the former Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church on West 11th Street (becoming the corporate headquarters for a local company).\r\nThis tour covers the majority of Tremont and includes most of its churches—from West 7th Street to the east, Columbus Road to the west, Kenilworth Avenue to the north and Clark Avenue to the south. A lot of walking to be sure; but also a degree of “holy density” that may be unparalleled in the United States. </p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/press-annunciation1949_424166a347.jpg","items":[{"id":95,"title":"Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church","latitude":41.4826693430999995371166733093559741973876953125,"longitude":-81.69085443020003367564640939235687255859375,"thumbnail":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/square_thumbnails/press-annunciation1949_424166a347.jpg","fullsize":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/press-annunciation1949_424166a347.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"2187 W 14th St, Cleveland, OH","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":96,"title":"Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic 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