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Mississippi Delta rural churches

April 14, 2009 – 12:07 pm

The Delta has a rich religious heritage, and is a land where faith- in God, in the future, in grace, and in ultimate redemption – unify all people. Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches are commonly represented in Delta towns.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been | Also tagged Abundant Life Pentecostal Church of God In Christ, African Methodist Episcopalians, Arkansas, Baptist, Charles Harrison Mason, Church of the End Times, Delta Center for Learning and Culture, Delta State University, Freedmen, Greenwood, Little Zion Missionary baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee, Methodist, Missionary Baptists, Mississippi delta, Mississippi River, Morgan City, Mt. Zion Missionary baptist Church, Payne Chapel Missionary baptist Church, Presbyterian, Protestant, Quito, Robert Johnson, True Living Word Temple of Deliverance, Vicksburg | Comments (4)

Margaret’s Grocery and Market, Vicksburg, Mississippi

April 9, 2009 – 1:06 am

Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Art, Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baton Rouge Louisiana, folk architecture, Margaret's Grocery & Market. Reverend H D Dennis, Rolling Fork Mississippi, the Delta, UCM Museum, vernacular architecture, Vicksburg Mississippi | Comments (1)

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