For nearly a century and a half, Christ Episcopal Church has stood as part of Portsmouth’s spiritual and civic fabric. Since our founding in the 1880s, we’ve served generations of working families, immigrants, and neighbors — always striving to be a place of welcome, worship, and compassion. Today, as we enter construction on a major redevelopment project at 1035 Lafayette Road, we are embarking on a bold new chapter in that story.

In partnership with the Portsmouth Housing Authority (PHA) and the violence-prevention nonprofit Haven, Christ Church is reimagining how faith, service, and community can come together on one shared campus. The project will create a new worship space for our congregation, a new headquarters for Haven, and 44 units of much-needed affordable housing. We believe t

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