Contributed by: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Organization: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Dated Posted: October 25, 2026
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The National Fund for Sacred Places, run by Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., has announced more than $9 million in capital grants of up to $500,000 each to 30 congregations, chosen from 466 applicants, to repair and preserve their historic buildings. This round includes the program’s first grantee in Arkansas, First Christian Church of Fayetteville. Other grantees include Berkeley Methodist United Church in California, Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., Temple Beth El in Birmingham, Alabama, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Red Wing, Minnesota.

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