{"id":2265,"date":"2014-12-05T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2014-12-05T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:03:18","slug":"first-united-methodist-church-rededication-dec-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/12\/05\/first-united-methodist-church-rededication-dec-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic church prepares to rededicate sanctuary on December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FirstChurchexterior\"Unless one\u00a0looked closely at the red doors along 19th<\/sup> Street at Sixth Avenue North in recent months and noticed signs posted, there was no way to know there was a transformation taking place inside. This Sunday, members of Birmingham’s oldest United Methodist congregation will rededicate their 1892 sanctuary as the first phase of an estimated $1 million renovation effort.<\/p>\n

First United Methodist Church<\/a> will hold their\u00a0service of re-dedication and restoration on Sunday, December 7 beginning at 11 a.m. to celebrate the occasion. It is the first major renovation project for its downtown\u00a0campus since 1972.\u00a0The work was completed by locally-based construction management firm Hoar Construction\u00a0—\u00a0the company’s second major project involving a place of worship in the city’s central business district in the last year\u00a0— they have also been\u00a0responsible for the $6.5 million restoration at the Cathedral of St. Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Richardsonian Romanesque Revival structure has seen\u00a0walls and ceilings scraped and repaired along with new flooring and carpet runners throughout since\u00a0work began this past\u00a0summer. The color scheme used for repainting is more in keeping with the late Victorian period during which it\u00a0was first constructed. (It was originally completed in 1892.) Additional work included the removal of drop ceilings throughout to expose the original tin; the refinishing of the sanctuary’s pews. An update posted to the church’s website<\/a> (PDF, 6.8 MB) gives a glimpse of the detail work completed.<\/p>\n

Additional work planned for the campus in the coming months includes an updating of their contemporary worship space as well as its HVAC, lighting, and plumbing systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

One of Birmingham, AL’s oldest communities of worship, First United Methodist Church, will celebrate the reopening and re-deciation of its sanctuary on Sunday, December 7, after several months of restoration. It’s the second house of worship in the city center to undergo such a project in the last year. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,1008],"tags":[1022,1013,1014,1015,437,1010,1012,1011,1009],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-religion","tag-architecture","tag-celebration","tag-first-church-birmingham","tag-first-united-methodist-church-birmingham","tag-information","tag-renovation","tag-reopening","tag-restoration","tag-united-methodist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/FirstChurchexterior.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}