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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/41 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 6, Item 5 List of questions and instructions for gathering information about African American religious institutions

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Religious Institutions and Structures

Exact date of organization, in beginning.

Exact location of organization, in beginning.

Present location, date of rebuilding.

Present seating capacity of building.

Enrollment or membership.

List churches, monasteries, and convents in your district of special interest as regards:

Archicturalarchitectural style, Oror Choirchoir, Oror Organistorganist, Oror Paintingspaintings, Oror interesting relics, Oror stained glass windows, Oror sculpture, Oror woodwork, Oror stone workstonework, Oror clergymen.

List unusual denominations existing in your district and give a brief history of any new religions, cults, or sects started in your district.

Mention instances of towns or cities started by immigrants who fled religious persecutions.

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Are there any "store-frontstorefront" churches in your district?

To what denominations do they belong?

What visible effects on the community can you attribute to any of the newer religious beliefs or groups.?

Are there any itinerant ministers in your district? What unusual or interesting facts about them can you discover?

Do youryou find any present or past traces of MohammedianismWe find no documentation of the spelling Mohammedianism in dictionaries (including WRUD, OED, and DARE), but the form nonetheless appears to have been common in printed works in the early twentieth century. See, for instance, Rexford Newcomb, Outlines of the History of Architecture, Part I, Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1922, p. 9; and Edmund Shaftesbury, Future Seeing and Philosophy of Philosophies, Meridien, Conn.: Ralston University Press, 1932, p. 385. in the religious worship in your district, – or any other non–christianChristian religion?

1. Give names and location of churches in your district.

2. Find oldest church, names of founders, and date of organization.

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3. Dates may also be taken from cornerstones.

4. Find out if there were any, or are there any, members who were slaves, and consult regarding worship and religion and slavery.

5. Find out if the slaves were taught their faith by their holders or by Missionariesmissionaries.

6. How did the church come in possession of its property? If donated, by whom?

7. Describe present structure and contrast with first building.

8. Give history of denominations.

9. Note influence of the church in your community.

10. Find out if any prominent or national characters worshipped or were members of your church.

11. List unusual cults, any new religions or sects started in your districts.

12. Interview Pastorspastors and Pioneerpioneer Preacherspreachers in your district for information relative to religion, worship, and its in–fluence.