East End Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at 2609 Sixth Avenue South in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built in 1947 in a style that can be described as Romanesque Revival, but has been well described by Jay Price as mid-century traditional. It added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. During the Civil Rights Movement it was led by the Reverend Calvin W. Woods.[1][2][3]
East End Baptist Church | |
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| Location | 2609 Sixth Ave. S, Birmingham, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 33°30′45″N 86°47′33″W / 33.51250°N 86.79250°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1947 |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| MPS | Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 05000292[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 22, 2005 |
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Van West, Carroll; Linda Nelson; Marjorie White (March 25, 2004). "East End Baptist Church". National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. National Park Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014. See also: "Accompanying photos". Archived (PDF) from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ^ Price, Jay M. (2013). Temples for a modern god : religious architecture in postwar America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-998048-2. OCLC 827268083.
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