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Torian was born in Roxboro, North Carolina.He received a B.A. degree in political science from Winston-Salem State University in 1980. Training to become a Baptist minister, he received a master's degree in divinity in 1984 from the School of Theology at Virginia Union University, and a doctorate in ministry from the Howard University School of Divinity in 1987.
Martin Luther King delivered a speech at First Baptist in 1962. [3] A church bell had been commissioned in 1886 for the approximate centennial of the congregation, dubbed the "freedom bell". This bell was restored in 2016 and rung by President Barack Obama at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. [5]
First Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located in Norfolk, Virginia.It was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and dedicated in 1906. It is a Romanesque Revival-style church with a richly ornamented facade of rough-faced, pink granite ashlar and limestone trim.
Woodbridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States, located 20 miles (32 km) south of Washington, D.C. [3] Bounded by the Occoquan and Potomac rivers, Woodbridge had 44,668 residents at the 2020 census.
First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Established in 1780, the church is located on the corner of Monument Avenue and Arthur Ashe Boulevard . As of 2024 [update] the senior minister is the Rev. Dr. Jim Somerville, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Washington, D.C.
Bermuda Hundred was the first administrative division in the English colony of Virginia. It was founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1613, six years after Jamestown . At the southwestern edge of the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers opposite City Point , annexed to Hopewell, Virginia in 1923, Bermuda Hundred was a port town for many years.
The First Baptist Church is a historic church building, now housing the non-denominational Dominion Outreach Worship Center, at 119 29th Street in Newport News, Virginia. Built in 1902, the church is a prominent local example of Romanesque Revival architecture executed in stone. It was designed by R.H. Hunt of Chattanooga. It is fronted by a ...
First Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church complex located at Covington, Virginia. The property includes two churches. One of the churches was built about 1890, and is a Gothic Revival style frame church. After construction of the 1911 church, it served as a classroom annex and cafeteria for a nearby school.