Railroad chapel car
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A railroad chapel car is a mobile railroad car used to provide religious services and information. The car also serves as living quarters for the pastor. The front of the car is designed to act as a "
St. Olga chapel car, one of the first chapel cars in the Russian Empire, 1896
Photo of the Baptist chapel car, Glad Tidings, on a railroad siding. This was where services were held.
Boston Smith, a key person in Baptist chapel car work.
Inventor William Coffin Coleman and his workmen with the chapel car Evangel. Coleman outfitted the car with new lighting in 1911.
Francis Kelley
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Francis Clement Kelley was a Canadian-born Catholic bishop. He was the second Bishop of Oklahoma City, as well as an author and diplomat. He was a Catholic priest for 54 years, and bishop for 23 years
Railroad chapel car
…Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado before being placed on permanent display at the American Baptist Assembly at Green Lake, Wisconsin, in 1946. Father Francis Kelley became the president of the newly formed Catholic Church Extension Society in 1905. Kelley visited the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and toured…
Francis Clement Kelley
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