The oldest Episcopal parish in Montgomery, St. John’s was organized in 1834 by a small group of pioneer settlers. Although Episcopalians were outnumbered by other denominations in the frontier village, by 1837, St. John’s parishioners had bought and occupied all 48 pews of the first brick church in town, a modest building on the corner of Perry and Jefferson Streets.Less than a decade later, Montgomery had become the capital of the state, and the key inland shipping center of the region produced more cotton than any other place of comparable size on earth. St. John’s kept pace with the town’s growth. In 1855, a new, larger church building, designed by the nation’s foremost church architects, Wills & Dudley of New York, was built at the other end of the same Perry Street block, facing Madison Avenue. This mid-19th century structure comprises the narthex and nave of the present church.St. John’s was host to the historic Secession convention of Southern Churches in 1861. During his stay in Montgomery, Confederacy President Jefferson Davis attended services with his wife, an Episcopalian. In 1865, St. John’s was closed, with all the other Episcopal churches in Alabama, by order of the Union Army. Worship took place in parishioners’ homes until the church was reopened in 1866.
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