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Akron Baptist Temple was established by Dallas F. Billington, a Kentucky native who moved to Akron in 1925. Billington, born in 1903, was the son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer. A Goodyear Tire employee, Billington studied theology at a Baptist correspondence school while working at a shoe factory in Paducah, Kentucky. Prior to the establishment ...
With membership declining, the Akron congregation sold its 29-acre property and 363,000-square-foot buildings for $1.5 million in 2018 to the Word Church, which put the complex up for sale a year ...
First Church of Christ, Congregational — Farmington [21] The church was a hub of the Underground Railroad, and became involved in the celebrated case of the African slaves who revolted on the Spanish vessel La Amistad. When the Africans who had participated in the revolt were released in 1841, they came to Farmington. [20]
2603 Benton Ave, Akron Founded in 1943, church dedicated in 1946 [50] St. Paul 433 Mission Dr, Akron Founded in 1919, church dedicated in 2003 [51] St. Sebastian 476 Mull Ave, Akron Founded in 1928, church dedicated in 1960 [52] St. Vincent de Paul 164 W Market St, Akron Founded in 1837 for Irish immigrants, the first Catholic parish in Akron.
Akron Baptist Temple sold the church and its 29 acres in June 2018 for $1.5 million to The Word Church. Overextended and underattended, The Word put a $3.9 million for-sale sign on the location up ...
Akron's plan to level the site of one of the country's first megachurches is moving full speed ahead. The former Akron Baptist Temple campus, most recently known as The Word Church, is just a few ...
The Christian Church merged with the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States in 1931 to form the Congregational Christian Churches. [ 5 ] : 191 In 1957 after twenty years of discussion and work, the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church , itself the product of the merger of two ...
The church had been at four other locations previously, including a property next to the Arlington Church of God. Frazier said it purchased the Triplett Boulevard building in the late 1960s and ...