PROJECT DESCRIPTION: After more than a century serving the post- Civil War community of Houston’s Fourth Ward, El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church was replaced by a new sanctuary in 1997. Unfortunately, the vacant church was the victim of arson and burned down in 2007. Several years later, the City of Houston purchased the remains with plans to convert the area into a park memorializing the church, which is on the National Register of His

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