Synagogue on the corner of Webster Avenue and Erin Street, now the Zion Hill Baptist Church

ca. 1953-1973

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Synagogue on the corner of Webster Avenue and Erin Street, now the Zion Hill Baptist Church
  • Title
  • Synagogue on the corner of Webster Avenue and Erin Street, now the Zion Hill Baptist Church
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1953-1973
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.232
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.232
  • Description
  • The Kether Torah Synagogue occupied this building at the corner of Webster and Erin Street from 1918 to the early 1950s. It is a three-storey brick building with a six-pointed star shaped window over the main entrance. A Hebrew inscription is visible over the building's other entrance. The building served as the home of the Carter Chapel CME church for a few years in the 1950s before being sold to the Zion Hill Baptist Church. The automobile on the far right dates from the late 1940s. Reverend Adam Kinsel, Jr., pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church, states that Harris took this photograph to promote a fundraising campaign for the renovation of the church and publication in the Pittsburgh Courier.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Kether Torah Synagogue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Zion Hill Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Church buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Synagogues--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Streets--Pennsylvania--Johnstown.
    Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Webster Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Erin Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh