storefront church

noun

: a city church that utilizes storefront quarters as a meeting place

Examples of storefront church in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic house of worship on West 14th Street, is a grandly inventive architectural oddity and the mother of all Hispanic storefront churches in New York City. John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 2 June 2023 In 1992, Bishop toiled over a six-week lesson that addressed the traumatic struggles of the women in his small storefront church. C. Syl'violet Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Jan. 2023 Rojas, Zárraga and a third Venezuelan national sat inside a storefront church in the District’s Park View neighborhood, with no place to sleep that night. Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022 Instead, the family takes refuge inside a small storefront church, the Faith, Life and Hope Mission, on 63rd Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 The historic building has housed a storefront church, a drama school, and for four decades served as headquarters for the tile layers union, Local 18. Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021 One man stood outside a storefront church on a recent morning and stuck a needle in his arm. BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021 The location of the shooting is a storefront in a line of one-story storefronts on 79th Street that includes businesses including a day care center, an electronics shop, a storefront church and a salon. Liam Ford, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2021 From the ages of 14 to 17, Baldwin preached at the Fireside Pentecostal Assembly, a storefront church in Harlem located at Fifth Avenue and 136th Street that has since moved to 69-71 Thayer Street. New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of storefront church was in 1937

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“Storefront church.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/storefront%20church. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.

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