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Fire ravaged the financially troubled Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church early Monday morning, just one week before the church, its school and land were scheduled for a sheriff`s auction to settle debts of more than $1 million.

The Chicago Fire Department has not determined the cause of the blaze, which swept through the brick church building at W.

th St., gutting and charring the chapel and caving in the roof. No one was injured.

”The cause is undetermined at this time,” said Fire Department spokesman Earl Larson. ”It`s still under investigation.”

The adjacent Mt.

Calvary Christian Academy was unscathed, although classes for its pupils were held at the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, S. King Dr., Monday.

Residents of the staid working-class Morgan Park community began gathering shortly after the fire was reported at a.m.

They watched as eight engines and five trucks manned by some 65 firefighters battled the climbing flames for two hours.

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