El Paso, TX, United States
First Presbyterian Church of El Paso. In the early 1880s, Presbyterians worshiped with other El Paso denominations in a union tent at the town's center. Their own congregation was organized on April 16, 1882, under the guidance of the Rev. John Alexander Merrill, who had traveled here from San Franc
isco about two years before. Sixteen charter members built a sanctuary at Myrtle Avenue and North Kansas Street, dedicated on March 7, 1883. The membership outgrew that building during the pastorate o
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