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Photographer: AGS Media
Taken: July 1, 2010
Caption: St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church
Additional Description: The rocks used to build the church were salvaged from the Hillsborough River where it meets the bay in downtown Tampa. The rocks originated from all over the world, transported to Tampa by sailing ships. They were left in the river as the ships discarded ballast from their hulls.

Today's St. James Episcopal House of Prayer formed from the 1997 merger of two churches: Tampa's oldest black Anglican Episcopal congregation (St. James, organized in 1895), and the historically white Episcopal House of Prayer (organized in 1907).
Submitted: July 1, 2010, by Glenn Sheffield of Tampa, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p115466
File Size: 3.626 Megabytes

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