Wednesday, November 20, 2024

a walk in Birdtown

between Madison Park, and a branch library
in front of someone's house and porch
Why is it exactly called Birdtown? O, yeah right.
A husky was lounging on his front porch.
The porch goose's jersey would be more recognised if the laces were in the front.

in front of a Mexican restaurant
This part of Lakewood had immigration from eastern Europe (Slavonic Austro-Hungary): Poles, Slovaks, Rusyns, Ukrainians. Each built their own churches, where they could speak their old languages. This yearstone was above a door. That building is now connected to a Baptist church. A few houses beyond is an Ukrainian Orthodox church. Across the street is a former Byzantine church [click], which had its last liturgy mid-December 2011. It was bought to be turned into a restaurant and brewery, development stopped, and in the last few moths has accelerated. 

Dej me synu muj, sroce své; a oči tvé cest mých at ostŕíhaji. Pŕis. 23, 26. 

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways. Proverbs 23:26.  [NAB]

Škola
Ev. Aug. Vyz. Církve
Sv. Petra a Pavla
30. Juna. 1910.

School
Lutheran U.A.C. Church
SS. Peter and Paul
June 30. 1910.

I surmise,  Ev. Aug. Vyz. Církve is Evanjelický Augsburský Vyznanie; in English, U.A.C. is Unaltered Augsburg Confession. They were the first congregation in Birdtown. This was their first school and church. Much bigger, and impressive buildings were built in 1927, a short walk away on Madison. Since then, the original congregation split twice, and those of the first split have merged under a new name. There is also a SS. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church on Madison in Birdtown. 

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