Results for Court Street Baptist Church
Court Street Baptist Church
The congregation was organized in 1843,
when Lynchburg’s African American Baptists
were separated from First Baptist Church.
The new African Baptist Church of Lynchburg met in a converted theater. It was demolished in 1879, after the deaths of eight people during a panic ...
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Court Street Baptist Church
Path of History, Portsmouth, VA
Established in 1789, the Portsmouth and Norfolk Baptist Church served as the first Baptist congregation in South Hampton Roads. The name was changed in 1791 to Portsmouth Baptist Church and again in 1855 to its current ...
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