There’s an alley off King Street, one of the busiest streets in Charleston, SC. Very easy to walk past, but if you find it, and the gate’s open be sure to walk through.
The ‘Gateway Walk’ originated as a path between Charleston’s Circular Church and the Unitarian Church. They started out as the same congregation, but they ran out of room. Over time the path disappeared under newer streets of the 1800’s.
It was later, in the 1900’s, the back end was reopened, and finally reconnected to King Street.
Private homes have entrances on the alley, but the gem is where the Unitarian graveyard begins in the path, as well as St. John’s Lutheran Church graveyard. St. John’s being a newer Church dating from approximately 1767.
Below are a few of the old stones found in the pathways of the Unitarian, the gate small opens to St. John’s.
This thing of a Church, next to a Church, connected to another, etc. is why Charleston is called the ‘Holy City’. Denominations from all over the world settled here, this was an ‘open city’, even when the Church Of England was the accepted church and we were a colony. There are over 400 Cathedrals and Churches in the city limits.
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Charleston, South Carolina.