Calvary Church is a non-denominational evangelical church in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE

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, North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

. Its senior pastor since 2005 is Dr. John H. Munro. The church was founded in 1939 by the Rev. Archie Dillard, and one of the founding elders was Billy Graham

Billy Graham

William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States Presidents dating back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...

's father Frank, whose participation was in part a response to Billy's conversion.

The current (fifth) building is a Charlotte icon with its unique exterior and crown shape built by Roe Messner

Roe Messner

Ronald Roe Messner is an American building contractor who has built more than 1,700 churches, including several megachurches....

. The main sanctuary seats more than 5,000. The 11,499 pipe organ is one of the twenty largest pipe organ

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

s in the world, and one of the top ten built all at once.

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