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Contemporary Storefront Churches (South/West Sides)

CTL-E-1386 · Address · site · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The living continuation of the storefront tradition on the South and West sides: small, idiosyncratic, neighborhood-embedded congregations documented photographically and journalistically in the 21st century.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:contemporary-storefront-churches; source research type(s): place. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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