Former Congregation Atereth Israel Ticktin Now New Saint John Community M.B.
Church, South Millard Avenue, Chicago

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Former Congregation Atereth Israel Ticktin Now New Saint John Community M.B. Church, South Millard Avenue, Chicago

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Camilo José Vergara

American Photographer · 1944–present

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> The ghetto poses urgent questions I feel compelled to respond to, not with solutions but with explanations and tangible records. I am driven to publicize and preserve the memory of these environments. > > --Camilo José Vergara Camilo José Vergara has spent more than thirty years documenting poor, urban, and minority neighborhoods across the United States. His projects emerge from what he sees as

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Date: 1990
Medium: Chromogenic print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 4d62892a-190e-4926-9a03-8ce486cde34d

Exterior view of the New St. John Community Missionary Baptist Church, housed in the former synagogue of Congregation Atereth Israel Anshe Ticktin. The brick building features a curved design on its roof, which is echoed by the large arch above its entrance. Also visible above its double doors are the Star of David and a cross. The ground around the building is covered with snow.

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