The National Fund for Sacred Spaces and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have awarded $4 million in grants to support critical preservation projects that will help maintain and extend the life of ...
Read More »Local historic Black church among those to get preservation grant
A historic Black Kansas City area church will receive a grant for preservation. Washington Chapel CME Church in Parkville, Mo. was the only church in Kansas or Missouri to be included among ...
Read More »Descendants work to preserve historic Black church in Pennytown, Missouri
“When I come to this church, I walk in, and I see and feel and hear my ancestors,” says Clarence Lawrence, one of the few remaining descendants of a town founded by ...
Read More »Highway competes with excavated town from Isaiah’s time
A major archaeological discovery in Israel raised the question of how to preserve the past without stopping progress towards the future when a modern highway and an ancient town came to a ...
Read More »Land of the Monasteries becomes Israel’s ‘must see’
An entirely new area of modern tourism is opening up to the faithful in Israel but it’s been a few years in the making. An area of abandoned churches and monasteries along ...
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