Edison Street Baptist Church - Table of Contents
Edison Street Baptist Church
The First Italian Baptist Church in the United
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28 Edison Avenue, Buffalo, NY
By Graham Millar
The Edison "avenue" designation occurred after the naming of the church
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Erected: |
1896 Cost: $1800 |
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Expansion (color photos below): |
1925 |
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Colonial Revival |
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Pescassaroli, Italy, in the late 1800s |
Opi, Abruzzo region of Italy, 1988 (near Pescassaroli) |
Rev. Ariel Bellondi, the first pastor |
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1925 expansion |
1925 expansion |
1925 expansion |
1925 expansion |
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Parish house |
The pages linked below were copied with permission from
Edison Street Baptist Church: The First Italian Baptist Church in the United States - A Centennial History,
by Graham Millar, 1996Page 1 - The origins in Pescassaroli, in Abruzzi, Italy
Page 2 - History of Pescassaroli
Page 3 - History of Protestantism in Italy
Page 4 - History of Protestantism in Italy, cont.
Page 5 - Pietro Taglialatela preaches in Pescassaroli
Page 6 - Catholics VS. Protestants in Pescassaroli; Italian emigration
Page 7 - Italians in the United States
Page 8 - Italians in Buffalo
Page 9 - Status of Italians in Buffalo
Page 10 - Italians in history of Buffalo
Page 11 - East Delavan and Roma
Page 12 - Ariel Bellondi invited to Buffalo
Page 13 - Thirty-four Italians converted to Baptist Church
Page 14 - Poem to Bellondi
Page 15 - First Italian Baptist Church erected on Edison Street
Page 16 - Ariel Bellondi becomes first pastor
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Page 21 - From 1912-1923 the church building is expanded
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Page 23 - Money is raised in 1925 for another expansion of the building
Page 24 - Expansion described
See also:
- History of Italian-Americans in Buffalo
- History of Bailey-Kensington North, by James Napora
- History of Kensington/Bailey, by James Napora
- Kensington-Bailey Architecture Links
- Buffalo's Houses of Worship - LINKS
