July 2006
Photos for July 25, 2006
The single room church sits on a foundation of limestone blocks on a site at 57th Terrace and Reeder where it has been since the early part of last century. Church members leave after the Sunday morning service.
Elder Robert Madison (left) listens as Deacon Louis White addresses the congregation before the closing of the monthly service at the Shawnee Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder Robert Madison moves with the sermon he delivers with a rhythm and cadence inside the Shawnee Primitive Baptist Church.
Inside the small but simple sanctuary of the Shawnee Primitive Baptist Church, congregation members stand as they sing along one of many hymns committed to memory during their recent monthly service.
Charles and Elizabeth (Bunte) Rieke settled in Shawnee from Rossla, Germany (Prussia). They are shown with their oldest children in about 1887. Greg Rieke contributed the photo.
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