All Souls Unitarian Church

All Souls Unitarian Church
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36°07′16″N 95°58′35″W / 36.121181°N 95.976332°W / 36.121181; -95.976332
LocationTulsa, Oklahoma
CountryUnited States
DenominationUnitarian Universalism
Membership2,023 (as of February 2, 2016)[1]
Weekly attendance890[1]
Websiteallsoulschurch.org
History
StatusChurch
Founded1921 (1921)
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architect(s)John Duncan Forsyth
Completed1955
Clergy
Minister(s)Rev. Marlin Lavanhar, senior minister
Rev. Barbara Prose, executive director of ministry
Rev. Dr. John Wolf, minister emeritus
Rev. Carlton Pearson, affiliate minister

All Souls Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is one of the largest UU congregations in the world.

All Souls Unitarian Church was founded in 1921 by two leading Tulsans from families with Unitarian roots:[2] Richard Lloyd Jones,[3] the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune daily newspaper, whose father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, had served as secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference and founded All Souls Church in Chicago;[4] and William Rea (W. R.) Holway, an engineer who was instrumental in the development of Tulsa's water resources.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b UUA Annual Congregation Inventory (accessed 2016-02-02).
  2. ^ Marlin Lavanhar,"Tulsa, A Divinely Inspired City" in Davis D. Joyce and Fred R. Harris, eds., Alternative Oklahoma: contrarian views of the Sooner State (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-8061-3819-0, pp. 211–219.
  3. ^ "Richard Lloyd Jones" Archived May 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography (retrieved July 17, 2009).
  4. ^ "Jenkin Lloyd Jones" at Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography(retrieved July 17, 2009).
  5. ^ Joe Robertson (12 January 1998). "Great Lake". Tulsa World. ISSN 8750-5959. Wikidata Q124390653.
  6. ^ Glen Roberson, "Grand River Dam Authority" at Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture (retrieved July 17, 2009)