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Evangelism in Fells Point:
The Port Mission, founded in 1881, was located in the center of Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood on Broadway. Founded by several of the city's businessmen to combat the crime and squalor of the waterfront area, Port Mission's supporters spread the gospel, particularly to seamen. The building included a reading room, hosted religious services, and provided aid of clothing a food for seamen who had fallen on hard times. By the mid-1950s, when Glushakow probably painted the Port Mission building, the evangelical activities of the Mission had all but ceased and the building had fallen into disrepair. |