MOUNT OLIVET EPISCOPAL CHURCH
530 Pelican Avenue, (Algiers) New Orleans, LA. 70114
Founded 1845 and located on historic Algiers Point
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INFORMATION ON THE MOUNT OLIVET
MOLLER ORGAN |
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Organist
-Choir Director Lisa Cairns at the 1924 Moller pipe organ. The insturment,
Opus 3847, originally came from Trinity Episcopal Church on Jackson Avenue
in the New Orleans Garden District. It was purchased and donated to Mount
Olivet by local dentist Dr. Mark Carey, who underwrote its purchase and
installation. The instrument left Trinity during the Lenten season of
1930 and was dedicated on Easter (April 20, 1930) at Mount Olivet by Bishop
Burton of the diocese of Lexington. |
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Organ history
appears on the console side. |
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