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On December 25, 1956, a bomb destroyed the home of civil rights activist Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and caused damage to Bethel Baptist Church right next door.
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, United States.The church served as headquarters from 1956 to 1961 for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), which was led by Fred Shuttlesworth and active in the Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement.
The church was renamed to Bethel Institutional Missionary Baptist Church in 1983. [4] In 1997, the last church service was held in the building, after which it was abandoned. [2] On January 24, 2005, a fire destroyed the interior of the church, leaving only the exterior brickwork intact. [3] In 2009, the church was sold to the City of Houston.
Bethel Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama), a U.S. National Historic Landmark in Alabama Bethel Baptist Church (Fairview, Kentucky) , listed on the NRHP in Kentucky Bethel Baptist Church (Jennings, Louisiana)
James Page, the first ordained black minister in Florida. He was the first pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, and came to Leon County as the slave of John Parkhill from Richmond, Va.
Bethel Baptist Church (Lakeland, Florida) Bethel church congregation first met on this site in 1851 and has met continually since then. Performed baptisms in “Indian Pond” until the 1940s. A Sanctuary was Built in 1928. (Southern Baptist)
Bethel Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church near U.S. Route 68 in Fairview, Kentucky. It occupies the site where Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, was born in 1808. The current structure was built in 1901 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Bethel Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church, [2] Gresham Pioneer Church [3] and Old First Baptist Church, [2] was a church building located in Gresham, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built by Peter Engles in 1886, the church displayed Gothic Revival architecture and was constructed of brick and ...