National City Christian Church
- Architect
- John Russell Pope
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle is the national church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a denomination that grew out of the Stone-Campbell Movement founded by Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, and Barton W. Stone. Designed by John Russell Pope in the Neoclassical style, the building replaced the congregation's earlier home as the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, whose former building now houses Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church.
the building
Site on Thomas Circle. The church occupies a prominent site on Thomas Circle, one of downtown Washington's traffic circles, giving Pope's Neoclassical design a freestanding presence unusual among the city's church buildings.
the style
Pope designed the church in the Neoclassical style, the classical vocabulary he applied across many of Washington's early 20th-century institutional buildings.
More on Neoclassicalsignificance
The congregation organized in 1843 as the Vermont Avenue Christian Church before building this Thomas Circle church as its national home; the building is a DC Historic Landmark. Sunday attendance, which numbered around 800 in the 1950s and 1960s, had fallen to about 125, mostly older congregants, by 2011.
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