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Cemetery at the Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Church or the French Protestant Church, a Gothic Revival church in Charleston, South Carolina

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The only independent Huguenot church in the United States, it was built in 1844 and designed by architect Edward Brickell White. Protestants in predominantly Catholic France, Huguenots faced persecution throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, many Huguenots fled France for various parts of the world, including Charleston.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6).

Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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2010 - 2020
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charleston
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south carolina charleston huguenot church churches huguenots edward brickell white revocation of the edict of nantes church cemeteries digital photographs color carol m highsmith french huguenot church french protestant church gothic revival church high resolution architecture carol m highsmith america project cemetery grave library of congress france