Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ
Coral-rock Mediterranean Revival sanctuary built as a memorial to a minister, by his developer son.
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This guide to Coral Gables Congregational Church traces how George Merrick, the man building an entire city out of Florida scrubland, lost his father Solomon, a Congregational minister, and answered his grief by raising a coral-rock Mediterranean Revival sanctuary in his memory, dedicated in April 1925, the same year Coral Gables became a city. Before there was a city hall, commencements for the brand-new University of Miami were held under this roof, and city government met here too. Then, in September 1926, a monstrous hurricane bore down on South Florida.
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