Pilgrim Baptist Church Archive (destroyed)

CTL-E-0777 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

The music and records archive of Pilgrim Baptist Church, Chicago - birthplace of modern Black gospel music under Thomas A. Dorsey - destroyed in the January 2006 fire that gutted the building.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-026; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Religion News Service, 2006-01-12

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