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Macedonia Baptist Church (Cuero, Texas) 1890 built 1988 NRHP-listed 512 S. Indianola ... Montgomery Primitive Baptist Church: built NRHP-listed Merrimac, Virginia:
The Court Square–Dexter Avenue Historic District is a 17.6-acre (7.1 ha) historic district in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Centered on the Court Square Fountain, the district includes twenty-seven contributing buildings and two objects. It is roughly bounded by Dexter Avenue, Perry, Court and Monroe streets.
San Antonio, TX: Spanish Colonial: Roman Catholic: ... Dexter Avenue Baptist Church: 1883–89 1974 Montgomery, AL: Baptist: Emmanuel Episcopal Church: 1884–86 2000
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The building is within walking distance of several key sites in the civil rights movement, including Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King once served as pastor. The Gerald–Dowdell House is one of the few large raised cottages remaining in Montgomery, and has undergone substantial rehabilitation as part of its conversion ...
The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1877 by freedmen and free people of color. It was first known as the Second Colored Baptist Church. The church trustees paid $270 on January 30, 1879, for a lot at the corner of what is now Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street. The first church building was a small wood-frame building.
It was purchased in 1919 by the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church for use as their parsonage. It was the home of Martin Luther King Jr. and his family while he was pastor, from 1954 until 1960. In January 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott, the home was bombed, focusing attention on the boycott and juxtaposing with King's non-violent methods.
This church, and those churches of like faith that followed, remained aloof from the majority of Baptists in Texas. Pilgrim Church is the oldest Baptist church in Texas, and survives today as a Primitive Baptist church near Elkhart, TX. [5] The first missionary Baptist church in Texas was organized at Washington-on-the-Brazos by Z. N. Morrell in