Candelabrum

Used in the Nicodemus African Methodist Episcopal Church in Nicodemus, Kansas

This candelabrum, which was used in one of the community churches, symbolizes faith, one of the five pillars that the Nicodemus community was founded upon. The Nicodemus settlers' faith had seen them through slavery, the oppression of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era and continued to see them through the rigors and heartache of taming the unforgiving new land they came to with all their hopes and dreams.