Indianapolis Indiana Cadle Tabernacle Evangelical Church History 1921 Booklet!

Here is a cool piece of Indianapolis, Indiana religious history for your collection! Cadle Tabernacle Booklet, Indianapolis, Indiana. Copyright 1921. 24 pages, illustrated. Booklet measures 8 1/2" x 6". The Cadle Tabernacle was a church established in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1921 by its founder, E. Howard Cadle. Named in honor of Cadle's mother, Loretta "Etta" Cadle, the building served as a center for evangelical programs and broadcasts on the Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station WLW in the 1930s, reaching listeners throughout the Midwest and parts of the South. The building's seating capacity of 10,000 made it the largest of its kind in the United States when it was built. Cadle Tabernacle was demolished in 1968 and the site was used for other purposes. The Cadle Tabernacle was built in 1921 in downtown Indianapolis at the northwest corner of New Jersey and Ohio Streets, a block east of the Old Indianapolis City Hall. Its final cost was $305,000[1][8][9] ($4.3 million adjusted for inflation). The tabernacle had 19 entrances, 226 windows, and a floor of crushed limestone.[16] Its seating for 10,000 and a 1,400-person choir made it the largest of its kind in the United States.[26] The Spanish-Mission style building, which covered a quarter of a city block, had whitewashed walls and a red tiled roof.[26] Its Ohio Street facade was influenced by the Alamo.[1] Constructed mainly from stucco,[1] the interior was painted ivory and its steel roof supports were painted green. The tabernacle's stage could be reconfigured for pageants and other events. The Cadle Tabernacle functioned as a meeting hall and a multi-disciplinary religious institution, especially from its heights between 1921 and 1955. It also played a major role in the evangelical community of the Midwest and upper South when E. Howard Cadle was an active evangelist. Cadle and other notable evangelists, including Billy Sunday and Oral Roberts, preached at the site.[2] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave an address there in 1958.[7] The building's decline in the 1960s and its demolition in 1968 left the site largely forgotten. No international sales or shipping.