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D11089-2
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- 1941-04-07 (Creation)
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Ellen Bell, wife of Rev. Arthur Bell, poses with stones from Westminster Abbey. The stones will be built into the reconstructed St. Lukes Memorial Episcopal Church. They were taken from part of a wall at the Abbey torn out during World War II air raids. The Westminster stones, as well as a piece of jasper from Jerusalem, believed to be from the site of David's temple, and a piece of sandstone from the Cathedral at Washington, D.C., will be placed in an inside wall of the sanctuary. When the original St. Lukes Church at 6th and Broadway was wrecked, the congregation plus that of the St. Marks Church at 36th and Gove had the stones numbered and dismantled to use in the construction of a new church at the Gove location. (T. Times 4/9/1941, pg. 3))
St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Tacoma); St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Tacoma); Episcopal Churches--Tacoma; Bell, Ellen;