Beautiful Plain BaptistChurch - Binghamton, NY
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N 42° 05.500 W 075° 55.771
18T E 423129 N 4660371
This church is being leased. It is now House of Worship COGIC. "Beautiful Plain outgrew the building and moved to a larger location in Endicott five years ago, where it merged with another church to become Cornerstone Community Church."
Waymark Code: WMTMX8
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/14/2016
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Press connects article on leasing the church January 16, 2015
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"Located at 93 Riverside Drive, the building is a distinctive one, with a large cross on its exterior easily visible to passersby and motorists. For more than 30 years it was the location of Beautiful Plain after the congregation, which dates from 1924, moved there from Pine Street.
“A lot of people came through here. I don’t know how many people say, ‘My aunt or parents went here,’” Barnett said.
Barnett himself remembers doing yard work for the founding pastor, the Rev. John W. Taylor, four decades ago when he was a 10-year-old child. Taylor always gave him a quarter, or 50 cents, he said, with a laugh.
But Beautiful Plain outgrew the building and moved to a larger location in Endicott five years ago, where it merged with another church to become Cornerstone Community Church. The Binghamton building sat unused until Barnett began leasing it."
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"The Church of God in Christ, Inc. (COGIC) is a Christian organization in the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. It is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. The membership is predominantly African-American with more than 6.5 million members. The Church has congregations in 63 countries around the world...Our Church is also considered to be a member of the great Protestant body though it did not directly evolve from the European or English Reformation but had its origin within the General Association to the Baptist Church."