Azusa Street Mission

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The Azusa Street Mission (actually Azusa Faith Mission ) is considered to be one of the origins of the Pentecostal movement .

The 312 Azusa Street address in Los Angeles was the meeting place for the Azusa Faith Mission , commonly known as the Azusa Street Mission . The leader of the ward was the African American preacher William J. Seymour .

The building had been an African-American Methodist embossed Episcopal Church served as a meeting place, but had been used recently as a stable and warehouse before it was used in 1906 by the emerging Pentecostal church.

Seymour had first preached on the front door of a private house on Bonnie Brae Street owned by Richard Asberry. The need to speak in tongues for Christians , proclaimed by Seymour, attracted a large audience, so that the congregation had to find its own space. Eventually they gathered in a building on Azusa Street at number 312. There the community developed and grew steadily. Soon services were celebrated three times a day. The gathering place at 312 Azusa Street and the Pentecostal Church attracted guests and visitors from all over the world and thus gave the name for the beginning of the emerging Pentecostal movement, the so-called Azusa Street Revival . The building served as a meeting place for the Pentecostal movement until 1931, when it was finally put on the city's demolition list and demolished.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Azusa Street Mission . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 47 (English).