Book Review: Images of America: Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship

 Images of America: Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship by Eileen Wirth PhD and Carole McCabe, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2014.

If you wanted to explore churches in Omaha, past and present, this is a very good reference book.  Church history very much mirrors ethnic history.  Omaha has a history of many different ethnic groups. and often each ethnic group had their own church.  Catholic churches are often divided this way.  

This book starts with the presence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Omaha area, Winter Quarters before Omaha was even a city.  They established the first European city in Winter Quarters,  The built a communal mill, and many passed away due to illness, cold and poor diet.  

The book then moves on to talk about the coming of Omaha ten years later further south along the Missouri.  Omaha had a very roudy history, but religion and churches helped to stabilize the population.

As I noted, many pictures of churches in Omaha.  It includes new churches and new religions as well as old.