Church
The Downtown Presbyterian Church
Egyptian Revival sanctuary with battered towers, painted columns and a ceiling styled after Karnak.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville follows the two decorative painters, Theo Knoch and John Schleicher, who spent the early eighteen eighties finishing William Strickland's Egyptian Revival sanctuary decades after it opened with bare walls. It traces how craftsmen who first learned this style on the Tennessee State Capitol turned a plain plaster shell into one of the country's most complete Egyptian Revival interiors. You will hear what the congregation waited so long to see overhead.
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