St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church - Prairie View, TX
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N 30° 05.231 W 095° 59.577
15R E 211523 N 3332226
One block off State Loop 1098 south of Prairie View A&M University campus.
Waymark Code: WM16F0H
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2022
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Church Document"St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church had its beginning in 1939 when a small group of Episcopal Church members of the Prairie View A. & M. College community met to discuss the formation of a permanent Episcopal chaplaincy and congregation in Prairie View, Texas. Miss Maude Ernestine Suarez, Dean of Women at the college was a leading member of this group.
In 1950, this group officially formed itself into the St. Francis of Assisi Mission Congregation in the Diocese of Texas.
The St. Francis’s congregation met in the Guest House Building on the campus of Prairie View from its inception. In June 15, 1957, the former church building of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal congregation, Hempstead, was moved to Prairie View and became the church building for the St. Francis congregation.
On May 1, 1971, Bishop Bailey broke ground for the ‘new’ St. Francis’s Church and Parish Hall.
On April 9, 1972, the Bishop of Texas, the Right Reverend James Milton Richardson, dedicated the new facilities."