W. D. Mackenzie Pledges to assist Asylum Avenue Baptist Church

02/01/1931 |

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W. D. Mackenzie, during the Sunday service at Asylum Hill Congregational Church, announced that the Prudential Committee and Societies Committee had invited the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church to use Asylum Hill Congregational Church’s auditorium, chapel, parish house, and equipment for services while Asylum Avenue Baptist Church was “unfit for occupancy.”

The present illuminated

The Asylum Avenue Baptist Church was damaged this morning in a fire.

The future foretold

Tomorrow, members of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church general committee would vote to hold their Sunday services at West Middle District School.
On April 13, 1931, embers of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church met at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church parish house and formally approved rebuilding their church at its present location.

For the record

W. D. Mackenzie was the acting pastor at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.

Source

Unattributed. “Fire totally destroys Asylum Ave. Baptist Church; Loss $125,000,” Hartford Courant, February 2, 1931, page 1.

Asylum Avenue Baptist Church
Asylum Hill Congregational Church

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