- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Friendship Baptist Church
- Creator:
- unknown
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1850/1980
- Subject:
- African Americans
Religious facilities--Georgia--Atlanta
Religious architectural elements--Georgia--Atlanta
Street lights--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Atlanta--Georgia
Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Castleberry Hill Historic District, 33.74872, -84.40271 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of the Friendship Baptist Church at the corner of Mitchell Street and Haynes Street in Atlanta, Georgia.
light, power lines, church, historic, oldest, religion
Friendship Baptist Church is the oldest African American church in Atlanta. It was organized in 1866, and the congregation, being unable to buy property, worshipped in a boxcar until the current structure was built in the mid-1870s at the corner of Mitchell Street and Haynes Street in Atlanta, Georgia. The first class of Spelman College was held in the basement of the church in April 1881. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.1654.001
ahc1701654001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/1040
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 5 x 8 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
