Finding God in DC
Is your godless soul bringing you down? Worried about all that fire and brimstone? Yeah, me too. Not to worry, though. Washington is full of churches, temples and other spiritual sites where you can cleanse your spirit and make up for all the blaspheme and sacrilege that goes on in this town.
Sixth & Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Saint Patrick Catholic Church
619 10th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Wat Thai Buddhist Temple
13440 Layhill Rd
Silver Spring, MD 20906
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National Cathedral
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW Washington, DC
When attending service at the National Cathedral, don't forget your business cards. You might be sitting next to the politico du jour or the ambassador to some … second-world country. Sprinkle your networking sessions with factoids about the church, like the totally secular Darth Vader sculpture fastened to the middle steeple. [link]
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
1518 M St NW
Washington, DC 20005
Find Jesus and a little history at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Martin Luther King, Jr., Winnie Mandela, and President Bill Clinton have all … spoken at this downtown historic site, and it's where Frederick Douglass's funeral was held. [link]
All Souls Unitarian Church
1500 Harvard St NW
Washington, DC 20009
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Mormon Temple
9900 Stoneybrook Dr
Kensington, MD 20895
Between Mitt Romney and Big Love, the latter-day saints are all the rage these days. Only bona fide converts can attend services at the behemoth LDS temple just across … the Maryland-DC boarder, but any lowly outsider can stop in the temple's visitors' center to see "one of the world's most technologically advanced religious exhibits." [link]
