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The original Christ Church, with steeple.  Museum of Mobile.

10: Christ Church (Episcopal).
Location: 115 Church St., at St. Emanuel.
Text: Established in 1823, the first Episcopal congregation in Mobile and in the State of Alabama. Cornerstone of present edifice laid in 1835; building completed and consecrated in 1842 by Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana and Alabama, later General of Artillery in the Army of the Confederacy.

Historic Mobile Preservation Society,   1953








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Christ Church, ca. 1950, without the steeple.

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