Cette église d'Atlanta est célèbre pour plusieurs raisons, principalement parce que Martin Luther King jr y a été baptisé et qu'on y a fait son éloge funèbre. Depuis quatre ans des travaux majeurs ont été effectués pour retrouver le cachet de l'époque ou King et son père y prêchaient. Le sénateur Barack Obama y a fait un speech en janvier 2008...
Article dans le NY Times de ce matin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/us/22church.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23
"The doors to the church opened Friday after four years and $8 million of detailed work to make it look exactly as it did during the 1960s, when Dr. King and his father stood on the pulpit and preached.
Restoration teams analyzed paint chips to recreate the exact soft peach color of the walls and uncovered the tall, painted-glass windows.
They studied old photographs of the fellowship hall in the basement, setting period green and white tile so the floor looked like it did when Dr. King held meetings of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group he formed in 1957.
A visitor can walk within an arm’s reach of the pulpit where Dr. King gave his famous "Drum Major Instinct” speech, in which he delivered his own eulogy. Two months later, April 9, 1968, his real eulogy would be delivered from the same pulpit.
There is the microphone that carried his words, and a communion tray he passed.
Although the Ebenezer congregation moved to a larger, more modern church across the street in 1999, they held a special service Thursday night. It was to honor their 125th year.
There won’t be many such services at the church in the future. The National Park Service keeps the doors open seven days a week."
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