St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Birmingham, Alabama)

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. St. Andrew's was founded in 1902 as a church school for children who could not get to the downtown Church of the Advent on Sunday. In the following year, the mission was expanded to include Sunday services. A site was acquired and a small church built; the first service was held on Easter, 1905. In December of that year, the parish was incorporated; it was admitted to full parochial rights at the Diocesan Convention of 1906. The original church building, a few blocks from the present church, was destroyed by a tornado in March, 1913. The parish had been considering a new building further up Red Mountain; now they had to act. The present site, at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street South, was acquired and the cornerstone laid by Bishop Charles Beckwith on St. Andrew's Day, November 30, 1913. The current building was first used at Easter, 1915. Soon after St. Andrew's was established, the rector Raimundo de Ovies, teamed up with The Rev. Carl Henckell, pastor of All Saints Church, to found Holy Innocents Hospital for Children (later Children's Hospital of Alabama). The hospital was founded in 1911 and originally operated under the auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. From that time until after World War II, St. Andrew's remained an ordinary medium-si

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