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Greater Salem Baptist Church

CTL-E-1392 · Church · baptist · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago Baptist congregation; Mahalia Jackson's first Chicago church home (1927) and the base of her early choir and Johnson Brothers/Johnson Gospel Singers work.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:greater-salem-baptist-church; source research type(s): congregation. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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Record CTL-E-1392 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · CTL research: SCI-004.
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