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First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 264-272 E. Short Street in Lexington, Kentucky. The congregation was founded c. 1790 by Peter Durrett and his wife, slaves who came to Kentucky with their master, Rev. Joseph Craig, in 1781 with " The Travelling Church " of Baptists from Spotsylvania, Virginia .
The First Baptist Church congregation in Georgetown, Kentucky was organized in 1811, and its first meeting house erected on West Jefferson Street in 1815. In 1842 Howard Malcom, the pastor of the church and president of Georgetown College, urged the relocation of the church to a site near the college. The congregation moved from their West ...
Rev. London Ferrill, the second pastor and a freed slave from Virginia, led the church to acceptance in the Elkhorn Association in 1824. In 31 years of leadership, he increased the congregation to 1,820 members, making it the largest church, black or white, in Kentucky. [5] By 1861, the church had a congregation of 2,223 members. [8]
The oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky, and third oldest Black Baptist church in the United States, the First African Baptist Church, was founded about 1790 by the slave Peter Durrett. [15] The oldest Black Catholic church, St. Augustine in New Orleans, was founded by freedmen in 1841.
Southeast Christian Church, with its main campus in Middletown and three others in the surrounding region, is, as of 2013, the seventh-largest church in the United States. [3] St. Stephen Church [4] is the 38th largest in the US, [3] and has the largest African American congregation in Kentucky. [5]
The founding pastor of the Tates Creek Baptist Church, Andrew Tribble, was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and may have helped shape his political philosophy. According to church historian Ratliff, Tribble came to Madison County from Virginia and helped found the church between 1783 and 1785, and organized the church in 1786. Tribble was Tates ...
Blue Ball Church, in Hardin County, Kentucky near Howe Valley, was built in 1849. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] It is also known as Blueball Baptist Church or Blue Ball Baptist Church. It is a one-story gable-front brick church, with brick laid in common bond, on a limestone foundation.
Belleview Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church at 6658 Fifth Street in Belleview, Kentucky. It was built in 1903 and added to the National Register in 1989. [1] The church, organized in 1803, built this building, its fourth, in its centennial year. The building has a complex entrance/bell tower. [2]