Tabernacle

This guide to the Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta opens with the tornado that tore through the city on March 14, 2008, ripping into the roof of this century-old hall. It traces the building's start in 1909, when Doctor Len Broughton built a Baptist tabernacle seating four thousand under one arched ceiling, its second life as a concert venue beginning in 1996, and eyewitness accounts of the storm that spared the nearby Georgia Dome but not this building. Look up at the ceiling as you listen for what the reconstruction crews had to recreate.