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The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1877 by freedmen and free people of color. It was first known as the Second Colored Baptist Church. The church trustees paid $270 on January 30, 1879, for a lot at the corner of what is now Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street. The first church building was a small wood-frame building.
The Third Baptist Church, formerly the First Colored Baptist Church, is an American Baptist church founded in 1852, and located in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It is the city of San Francisco's oldest African-American church. [4] [5] The church occupied several spaces in San Francisco over the course ...
The First Baptist Church (also known as the Brick-A-Day Church) on North Ripley Street in Montgomery, Alabama, is a historic landmark.Founded in downtown Montgomery in 1867 as one of the first black churches in the area, it provided an alternative to the second-class treatment and discrimination African-Americans faced at the other First Baptist Church in the city.
New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church located at 8430 C. L. Franklin Boulevard (also called Linwood Street) in Detroit, Michigan. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA. Founded in 1932, the church was led by C. L. Franklin from 1946 until 1979 and was at the center of the civil rights movement in Detroit. Robert ...
The church was founded in New Orleansin 1940.[1] In 1986, Fred Luterbecame senior pastor of the church, which had 65 members.[2] In 1997, it dedicateda new building including a 2,000-seat auditorium.[3] In 2005, when the church had 7,000 members, Hurricane Katrinaflooded its facilities and many members left town.
The church was founded in 1890 as Orchard Knob Baptist Church, was soon renamed to Beech Street Baptist Church, and became Highland Park Baptist Church in 1903 when it moved to a new location at the corner of Orchard Knob and Union Avenue. The church's wood-frame building was replaced by a brick church (later known as Phillips Memorial Chapel ...
Designated ARLH. June 16, 1976 [ 1] The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil ...
1927. Administration. Division. American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, Southwest and Hawaii. Clergy. Pastor (s) Rev. Dr. Scott T. Arnold. First Baptist Church of Los Angeles is an American Baptist church located at 760 South Westmoreland Avenue in Los Angeles, California. It was designated Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument 237 in 1981.