Tag: Grace Episcopal Church (Alexandria VA)

207-209 South Patrick Street.

Wikipedia says: Grace Episcopal Church is an Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Grace Episcopal Church is a center for worship and fellowship, a school for discipleship and stewardship and a community for healing and outreach.

The church was founded in 1855 by members of Christ Church and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church who wanted to start another Episcopal Church in the expanding West end of Alexandria. The parish’s original founding statement says “where all may come without regard for temporal estate, freely and without fee, as brethren come one to another.” This was in contrast to the common practice at the time for parishioners to pay a pew tax. During the American Civil War, the church’s building was used as a hospital. It was associated with the Oxford Movement.

After World War II, the parish expanded and moved to Alexandria’s outskirts, constructing the current church building in gothic style in 1948. A grade school was added in 1959 in the parish education wing.