@pete.ghrist: My childhood church in Hammond is being torn down, I stopped by to see it one more time before it's gone.

metrorock652 :

is that the first baptist church in Hammond off of Soul Ave.

KJK :

Isn’t that a sin to knock down a church 🤷‍♀️

pinchy poo toe :

I was hoping they would salvage that stained glass somehow

Rodriguez :

Yes that church been there since I was kid just like how that abc store got torn down too

I_Am_Mz_ReRe :

This is down the street from me. I'm not an original Hammond resident; been here 6yrs, originally from Gary. Not sure what happened but hate to see the church going down like that 😞

219apartments :

Any news what is going there? I drove by couple weeks ago and it was in the street

snacura :

great now we can replace it with a data center

Mama Trevino🙏🥰 :

If this was the big church off Michigan, with the annex next to it then this is the church I grew up in🥺 aww sad 😢 I went there all my childhood.

Kandy :

I think this was New Community Church in Hammond

Illiana🫠 :

Omggg I have pictures of the church, it was so beautiful before

🍥swirl🍭💫 :

I haven’t been around there for awhile, so when I was going to visit my cousins I passed by like 2 days ago

Selene Franceschini :

I literally live 5 minutes away on Calumet Ave I was there 2 years ago I got to go inside it was huge and the pastor 🙏🙏🙏was so nice he helped us with food and directed us to het help the church wasn't in operation then

✝️AMEN ED1TS_12234✝️ :

I seen that before we wondered what happened

愛 :

I live by this

Dahlin✌🏾✌🏾😭 :

Drove past it last time

breepnxul13 :

𝒥𝒶𝓋𝒾♱ :

I saw this

𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑜_𝐢𝐬_𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖑 :

I saw that

Vii!! :

I drove past it

Eli.edits_02 :

That’s the last place my grandma went before dying

Clarity Gaming :

live by it, was sad seeing it torn appart

Marskionyt :

I rmb ts that church used to make evt look more alive ngl

LisaBRuizIgartua :

how is the gentleman doing that gpt burned the deacon?