St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church
| St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The church in 2009 |
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| location | 108 N. Dearborn Street Mobile , Alabama , USA |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 41 ′ 29 " N , 88 ° 3 ′ 4" W | ||
| Built | 1872 | ||
| architect | Hutchinsson, CL | ||
| Architectural style |
Neoclassicism Renaissance |
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| NRHP number | 76000347 | ||
| The NRHP added | October 8, 1976 | ||
The St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist Church in Mobile in the US state of Alabama . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1976 .
history
The congregation was formed as part of the African Baptist Church near the intersection of Springhill Avenue and Ann Street. The congregation was active in 1836, erected its own church building in 1839, and later known as Stone Street Baptist Church . After controversy over funding a missionary program across Alabama, some parishioners founded another church, later named St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church. Originally the new congregation met at the intersection of Springhill Avenue and Broad Street, but in 1859 bought new property on Dearborn Street.
The first pastor was the white Baptist pastor Joshua Hawthorn, but he left the ward in 1850. Charles Leavens succeeded him as the first African American pastor in the congregation. At that time, the ward was sending organizers across Alabama to plant more churches and attract new pastors. The current building from 1872 was designed by local architect CL Hutchinsson. The Seventh Colored Baptist Convention of Alabama was held there in 1874, a meeting that led to the founding of Selma University in 1878.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church. In: NPGallery Digital Asset Management System. National Park Service , accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ^ A b Beth L. Savage and Carol D. Shull: African American historic places . Preservation Press, Washington, DC 1994, ISBN 0-89133-253-7 , pp. 98 (English, archive.org [accessed January 5, 2020]).