The church interior - stretching almost 180 feet, much longer than the typical urban church - was widely discussed.

While this group leans Republican, it includes black urban churches and is far from monolithic.

They also designed about 23 urban churches of varying sizes and styles.

Until 1986, it was not much different from other struggling urban churches.

The biggest response has come from urban African-American churches, many of which have been serving the needy for years.

Many of its urban churches and schools, once filled with European immigrants, were impoverished.

Calvary focuses on its missions as an urban church in the heart of a great city.

He described his concept of a "metropolitan church" as the need for an urban church "to do the social bit".

A study of 31 urban churches in the United Provinces, in 1939.

The first round of assessments last year focused on urban churches in areas where the Catholic population has been declining for decades.