Memorial Church celebrates 123-year anniversary

Today in 1890, Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church was officially dedicated.

The Presbyterian Memorial Church houses the nation’s oldest Presbyterian congregation and was built by Henry Flagler in 1889 in memory of his daughter, Jenny Louise Benedict.

The dome is made of copper and was designed in the Venetian Renaissance style.

Upon Flagler’s death in 1913 he was interred in a marble mausoleum within the church beside his daughter Jennie Louise, who died following complications from childbirth, her infant, Marjorie, and his first wife, Mary Harkness Flagler.