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* [[J. H. Longcrier]] | * [[J. H. Longcrier]] | ||
* [[O. P. Bentley]] | * [[O. P. Bentley]] |
Revision as of 19:45, 30 May 2011
Ensley Baptist Church is a Baptist church located on the corner of Avenue E and 23rd Street in Ensley.
The church was organized on February 11, 1900 as a mission of the First Baptist Church of Birmingham by a group of 55 who had been meeting above a hardware store on Avenue E. They erected their first building that year on the corner of Avenue G and 18th Street, adding a pastorage in 1906.
In 1911 the church began a new building on its present site and converted the older one into a Sunday School building. A new more substantial education building was constructed beginning in 1924. The church took out a loan four years later to pay off the debt on that building and extend it forward forming a new sanctuary.
The massive brick building with limestone trim features tall Jacobean arched windows and deep buttresses supporting tall side walls with clerestory windows. The front wall has a gabled pediment and the education buildings are arranged on the back corners forming a "T" shape.
Another building campaign in 1962 added a new education wing with an elevator and provided for renovations to the sanctuary.
Pastors
- J. W. Willis, (1900-)
- H. W. Provence or S. M. Province
- J. H. Longcrier
- O. P. Bentley
- A. K. Wright
- D. M. Gardner
- C. B. Miller
- W. C. Kirk
- Lamar Jackson
- Garnett Puckett
- Hayward Smith
- Robert Curlee
- Jack Farmer (1980s)
References
- Prince, A. G. (1982) Landmarks of Ensley: Past and Present. revised edition. Ensley: Best Printing Service