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A photo essay by Alexander Cohn
16th Street can seem like the longest street in Washington, D.C. There are no storefronts along its five-mile stretch. Once envisioned as the city’s luxury corridor, it was expected that embassies of foreign countries would settle here. Over the years, however, most of the embassies chose Massachusetts Avenue. Churches chose 16th Street.

Today there are dozens of houses of worship: Russian Orthodox, Christian Science, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Unitarian. The list includes Trinity A.M.E. Zion, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, and Buddhist Congregational Church of America. If Pennsylvania Avenue is home to the nation’s politics - and K Street its lobbyists - 16th Street is home to its religions. 


Dominican Nunnery 
16th and Buchanan


Chua Giao Hoang
16th between Kennedy and Colorado


Ohev Shalom Talmud Torah Congregation
16th and Iris

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Alexander Cohn is a freelance photographer based in Portland, Maine


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