6th Street Peace Baptist Church
6th Street Peace Baptist Church is a Baptist church organized about 1920 as St Timothy Baptist Church. The congregation of about 500 meets at 300 6th Street North at 3rd Avenue North just west of I-65 near Smithfield. The pastor is Geroid Caldwell.
St Timothy Baptist met in private homes until building a small frame church on 5th Street North in the early 1940s. On June 6, 1948, the congregation moved into a new larger brick-faced building designed by Pastor John Henry Stenson and built by Deacon Jinwright adjacent to the current church. The church was used for some Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights mass meetings during the Civil Rights Movement.
That building served until the present brick-veneer vaulted sanctuary was completed in 1990. Plans for a Family Life Center on the former site of the 1948 building are being pursued.
Pastors
- Reverend Sutton, 1920–
- J. A. Martin
- Reverend Burrells
- Reverend Henry
- Reverend Braggs
- Reverend Ferguson
- John Henry Stenson, 1940–1969
- Hobdy Moorer, Jr, 1969–2002
- Geroid Caldwell, 2003–present
References
- Bryant, Joseph D. (August 3, 2010) "Birmingham church dislikes nearby stripper signs." Birmingham News
External links
- 6th Street Peace Baptist Church website