The church began burning 18 hours before I took this photo, see Previous photo, and was still burning. Crews were working inside to totally demolish the building without trying to salvage anything. It was built in 1901 as Prytania Street Presbyterian Church and its first pastor was William McFaddin Alexander of Scots descent. The magnificent organ in the Church was a Hook(E.& G. G.) first built in 1869. The building was sold in 1985. Renamed Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church it was closed since Hurricane Katrina and had been for sale for several years. The City cited it for neglect several times.
Before nightfall the building had been totally demolished by crews and another part of New Orleans history is gone.