This church at the corner of Starkweather and West 14th Street in Tremont was constructed in 1908 as the German Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church. That parish originated in 1865 on that same site in a wood frame building, at a time when Tremont was known as University Heights. The current yellow brick, Gothic-style structure features large, pointed stained glass windows and decorative stone detailing throughout the exterior. Services were held primarily in German until after World War I. In 1968, the church was sold to the Cleveland Baptist Temple due to a decline in the German population. In 1994, ownership was transferred to Calvary Pentecostal Church, known to its Puerto Rican congregants as Iglesia Pentecostal El Calvario. The congregation moved to the new location from its previous home at 4502 Bridge Avenue in Ohio City, where it had been since 1978.