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History. 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 ...
Bellevue Baptist was founded in 1903 by Central Baptist Church as a mission church on the outskirts of Memphis. With a small $1,000 gift from member Fannie Jobe, Pastor Thomas Potts led the congregation to build a one-room stone chapel at the corner of Bellevue and Erskine Avenues.
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The church was founded in New Orleans in 1940. [1] In 1986, Fred Luter became senior pastor of the church, which had 65 members. [2] In 1997, it dedicated a new building including a 2,000-seat auditorium. [3] In 2005, when the church had 7,000 members, Hurricane Katrina flooded its facilities and many members left town.
The First African Baptist Church was founded in 1841 by the black members of Richmond's First Baptist Church, along with some of the members of the Second and the Third Baptist Church as well. The First Baptist Church housed a multiracial congregation from its beginning in 1802 until the white members of the congregation built a new church in ...
History. Founded. 1808. Founder (s) Thomas Paul. The Abyssinian Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch located at 132 West 138th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Lenox Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA and American Baptist Churches USA. [1]
The church building in 1907. The church was founded in 1848 in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. [1] Charles Stanley, joined the staff in 1969 and became senior pastor in 1971. [2] [3] In the late 20th century, a commercial facility was purchased on Atlanta's Interstate 285 and the church relocated to the larger, more accessible property in DeKalb ...
The Baptist General Conference grew out of the great revival of the 19th century, but its roots can be traced back to Radical Pietism in Sweden. [1] In 1852 Gustaf Palmquist emigrated from Sweden to the United States. Forty-seven days after his arrival, he and three others organized a Swedish Baptist church in Rock Island, Illinois.