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Organized in 1789. Oldest Catholic church in the Carolinas.
St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Charleston, South Carolina, and was the first Catholic parish established in the Carolinas and Georgia. The current building at 93 Hasell Street is the third structure to house the congregation on this site.
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Organized in 1749. The present Greek Revival-style building, built in 1840, is the oldest continually operating Jewish cemetery in the U.S. The oldest surviving Reform synagogue in the world and second-oldest synagogue of any kind in the United States.
Organized in 1791.
An old shopping district at the foot of Market St. where vendors still sell wares. Contrary to popular legend, the Market was never a slave exchange. However, the remnants of the Old Slave Mart are a few blocks away.
Congregationalists, Scotch and Irish Presbyterians, and French Huguenots of the original settlement of Charles Town founded this dissenting congregation, known as the Independent Church, around 1681. They met at the White Meeting House, for which Meeting Street is named.
Since 1905, this striking Beaux Arts building has housed a premier collection of over 10,000 works of fine art, principally American works with a Charleston or Southern connection.
Organized 1742.