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Early Churches in South Dakota : A Lasting Legacy, Paperback / softback Book

Early Churches in South Dakota : A Lasting Legacy Paperback / softback

Part of the Historical Preservation Series series

Paperback / softback

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A testament to the people who built them, churches represent shared religious beliefs, local craftsmanship, and community.

Members of the congregations often constructed these buildings from readily available materials to fulfill their visions of faith, education, and fellowship.

Over time, congregations grew, and some hired architects to erect high style churches on the prairie.

From simple wood structures to large stone edifices, each building embodies the identity of its worshippers.

Over the course of several years and many summer-time trips across South Dakota, Robert W.

Sebesta photographed more than six hundred religious buildings built from 1869 to 1930 — many still in use, others long neglected.

In Early Churches in South Dakota, he details, decade-by-decade, the early efforts to create these places of worship and the modern-day struggles to preserve them.

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