Shiloh Tabernacle, Zion City, Illinois, 1904 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Shiloh Tabernacle, Zion City, Illinois, 1904, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Shiloh Tabernacle, July 17, 1904, Zion City, Ill.
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Shiloh Tabernacle, Zion City, Illinois, 1904
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Zion City, Illinois, in 1904 was a religious community barely three years old, founded in 1901 on the Lake Michigan shore about 35 miles north of Chicago by the Scottish-born evangelist John Alexander Dowie. Dowie ran the town as a theocracy, banning tobacco, liquor, and pork, and he built its economy around church-owned enterprises such as a lace and linen works, a printing plant, and a bank. The Shiloh Tabernacle, shown here, was the largest gathering place of his Christian Catholic Church, where his followers sang, prayed, and heard him preach on divine healing. Within a few years, financial troubles and a bitter fight over Dowie's authority would split the city, but in 1904 the tabernacle stood for the community's hopes of a self-contained holy city.
| Created / published | 1904 |
|---|---|
| Creator | geo. r. lawrence co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,247 px · prints to 18 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Shiloh Tabernacle, July 17, 1904, Zion City, Ill. |
| Reference | IL Shiloh Tabernacle, Zion City 1904 |
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