Har Zion Temple
With a lively story and beautiful photos that touch the heart, Making Our Journey Together—Har Zion Temple at 100 explores the compelling narrative of this groundbreaking synagogue’s remarkable first century beginning in 1924. Reflective essays in the voices of its leaders tell the story of why this beloved institution means so much to the Philadelphia […]
St. Mark’s Church in Ortega
For the last century, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church has served Jacksonville’s Ortega neighborhood and its generations of members. This beautiful commemorative book—St. Mark’s Church in Ortega, The First One Hundred Years, 1922–2022—celebrates the beginning and growth of the church, a century of faithful parishioners, and its history of numerous missions and growing ministries. We are thrilled […]
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church
The birth of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church was, to say the least, difficult. Atlanta was trying to rebuild itself in the wake of the Civil War and the city was in ruins. From this dismal scene emerged Mary Ellen “Nellie” Peters, an Episcopalian seeking to do charity work for orphans and the poor, who were […]
Candler School of Theology
Religion and Reason Joined, our centennial history of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, begins with a good, old-fashioned argument fueled by the money of a nineteenth-century robber baron. The argument was resolved, for the most part, by a hard-headed bishop and his brother, the most successful purveyor of carbonated, flavored water in […]
Jewish Federation of Atlanta
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Bookhouse-JewishFederation3.png For this history of what is now one of the largest Jewish populations in America, Bookhouse Group worked with a professor of Judaic studies at Emory University to tell a story that began in 1845 when two Jewish German immigrants settled in Atlanta. Through oral histories, exquisite photographs, and a compelling manuscript, L’Chaim explores the growth […]
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta
The “mother” First Presbyterian Church Atlanta in the heart of Atlanta is over 160 years old and showing no signs of slowing down. Bookhouse was commissioned to tell the story of its proud history and many firsts, including being the first church in America to do a radio and television broadcast, and the first to […]
Christ the King
Cathedral of Christ the King: The History 1937– 2012 describes the growth of a closely knit society of Atlanta Catholics evolving into a diverse parish of more than 5,000 families. The book is set against a backdrop of a changing Catholic Church with the passage of the Second Vatican Council and the emergence of Atlanta as […]