Source: The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Ever since St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church was founded in the early 1970s, the congregation has been meeting in one parish hall or another — until now.
On Sunday afternoon at 3, church members will celebrate the consecration of a 3,000-square-foot sanctuary specifically designed and built to glorify God and inspire all who enter it. The Very Rev. Morris K. Thompson Jr., bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, will be there to bless it.
Tucked behind a large lawn at 12663 Perkins Road in Baton Rouge, across from Calandro’s Supermarket, the church has for decades resembled a sprawling, residential ranch house. But in recent months it has seen a $200,000 doubling of the “old” parish hall and a major makeover featuring new windows and doors, iron crosses on the roof and soon-to-be installed antique stained glass windows recycled from a Catholic parish in New York.
“This is the first permanent sanctuary we’ve ever had in the 42-year history of the church,” said the Rev. W. Patrick Edwards, St. Margaret’s priest-in-charge for the past three years […]
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