CITY OF CONCORD v. NEW TESTAMENT BAPTIST CHURCH

No. 7933.

118 N.H. 56 (1978)

CITY OF CONCORD v. NEW TESTAMENT BAPTIST CHURCH HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ROY A. FORREST & LARRY L. THOMPSON NEW TESTAMENT BAPTIST CHURCH HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL v. CITY OF CONCORD.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

January 23, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibbs, Craze & Thompson, of Parma Heights, Ohio (David C. Gibbs, Jr., orally), and McSwiney, Jones & Semple, of Concord, for the New Testament Baptist Church.

Paul F. Cavanaugh, city solicitor, by brief and orally for the city of Concord.


DOUGLAS, J.

The issue in this zoning case is whether a five-day-a-week school run by a fundamentalist church is a facility "usually connected with a church." We hold that it is.

In June of 1971 the Reverend Roy Forrest founded the New Testament Baptist Church in Concord, eventually locating it at 4 Union Street. In 1976 a building at 8 Union Street, separated from the church by one nonowned property, was purchased. The members of the church consider themselves...

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