Peoples Temple Church Buildings in Indianapolis

Address Name Source
I-65 and Keystone (photo) Busy street; DG says tent meetings held here DG
I-65 and Keystone (photo) Busy street, with gas station; DG says tent meetings held here DG
Bacon and Keystone (photo) Somerset Methodist Church (now vacant lot) DG
Questions about Somerset Methodist Church
3200 Keystone (not pictured) Somerset Methodist Church; became Christian Assembly in 1953, with address change to 3230 South Keystone. Current site has an auto repair shop. DD
Keystone Photos Does the corner of Bacon and Keystone differ from I-65 and Keystone, where a gas station is pictured? What or where is the vacant lot noted on Bacon and Keystone? Is this 3200 Keystone? 3230 South Keystone? RM
     
Randolph and Hoyt (photo) Wings of Deliverance, Community Unity Church (vacant lot) DG
720 South Randolph (photo) First actual church building, Wings of Deliverance (decrepit church building visible) DC
Laurel Street (photo); renamed House of Faith Laurel Street Tabernacle – This identification is incorrect, see items that follow DG
Questions and Discussion about Laurel Street Tabernacle
1629 Laurel Street, address listed in 1955 Current location of Laurel Street Tabernacle; building constructed 1950. This is the one JC listed Jones and Branham at (though ad says Cadle Tabernacle.) This address may differ today because of reconfiguration of streets and addresses. Currently a Spanish-speaking congregation at Iglesia Apostólica Betesda, Indianapolis. Could we get a photo of the 1955 Laurel Street Tabernacle? PM

 

 

 

 

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1628 Laurel Street, address listed in 1945 Laurel Street Tabernacle (across the street from new one constructed 1950) PM
Laurel and Woodlawn The church at Laurel and Woodlawn is not the Laurel St. Tabernacle, and never was, the Laurel Street Tabernacle PM
Laurel and Woodlawn This church is now called House of Faith, for people in recovery. “Rachel Cooper, who heads the South East Community Organization, happened to be there when I stopped in and insisted that a vacant lot a few blocks away, at Randolph and Hoyt, was the site of Jones’ first church.” DC
Laurel and Prospect There was no church at Laurel and Prospect, the newspaper article got it wrong. PM
Laurel and Pleasant Run Drive South Current location of Laurel Street Tabernacle.

Could we get a photo of this?

DD

RM

House of Faith I could find no listing anywhere for a House of Faith in Indianapolis. Does it go by another name? RM
     
Park and St. Claire No identification other than that it is the Phoenix Theater.

I am going to remove this unless it has some connection to Peoples Temple

DG

RM

1502 N. New Jersey Street (multiple photos) Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. DG
Tenth and North Delaware Streets (photo) Former synagogue building sold to PT in 1957-1958, (now vacant lot); address listed in Jim Jones Meets Father Divine, published in 1959; history of Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation = https://ihcindy.org/who-we-are/ shows photo of synagogue DG RM
Tenth and North Delaware (photo) Vacant lot, site of former synagogue and Temple building DG
Photos of parsonages Identified at home(s) of Jim Jones DG

Key

DG = Duane Green, 2012

PM = Patrick Meister, Indiana University Indianapolis, 2024

JC = John Collins, manager of https://william-branham.org, a historical research website

DC = Daniel Carpenter, former columnist with Indianapolis Star and contributor to Indiana Historical Society

DD = Deedee Davis, Digital Archivist, IUPUI

RM = Rebecca Moore