Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 52
First Lutheran Church at 2507 Highland Avenue in Birmingham’s Higland Park neighborhood is one of four very similar Birmingham churches designed by Charles McCauley. The others are St. Barnabas Catholic Church in East Lake, All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Homewood, and Valley Christian Church in Mountain Brook. First Lutheran is a congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and was originally named Zion Lutheran. It moved to this location when this building was opened in 1951. For more on the congregation’s history, see its entry in Bhamwiki.
Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.
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[…] is one of four very similar early post-war churches designed by Charles McCauley. The others are First Lutheran, St. Barnabas Catholic, and Valley […]
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[…] Valley Christian Church is easy to see the back of from the highway US-280, but it is harder to get to. It occupies a quiet track of land off the top of Shades Mountain. The building is one of four very similar structures in Birmingham all designed in the 1940s or 1950s by archictect Charles McCauley. The others are All Saints’ Episcopal Church, St. Barnabas Roman Catholic Church, and First Lutheran Church. […]
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[…] XXIII. The other similar churches by McCauley are All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Homewood, First Lutheran Church in Birmingham, and Valley Christian Church in Mountain […]
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