Tabernacle

Atlanta


Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan, Adele and Kendrick Lamar have all played this storied downtown live-music venue dating to 1910. While it was formerly an infirmary and a Baptist church, today the congregation worships the music amid a vaguely Moulin Rouge–like ambience.


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