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A new sanctuary was completed, to designs by [[Charles McCauley]], in [[1958]]. The design incorporated the old stained-glass windows, surrounded by new glass borders to fill the larger openings in the new building. | A new sanctuary was completed, to designs by [[Charles McCauley]], in [[1958]]. The design incorporated the old stained-glass windows, surrounded by new glass borders to fill the larger openings in the new building. | ||
==Pastors== | ==Pastors== |
Revision as of 16:16, 23 May 2018
First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa is a Baptist church located at 721 Greensboro Avenue in Tuscaloosa. The current paster is Gil McKee. The church was organized in 1818 as Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was changed to Tuscaloosa Baptist Church in 1832.
Before the Civil War, a large portion of the congregation were enslaved African Americans. Following emancipation, most of them left to establish the First African Baptist Church in 1866. The church was reorganized with a board of trustees in the early 1880s and began construction of the first building at their present location. The church building, which was dedicated in 1884, was designed by J. R. Ryan of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It housed the congregation's first indoor baptismal pool. Before then, new members were baptized in the Black Warrior River.
A new sanctuary was completed, to designs by Charles McCauley, in 1958. The design incorporated the old stained-glass windows, surrounded by new glass borders to fill the larger openings in the new building.
Pastors
- Nathan Roberts, 1818-1821
- Daniel Brown, 1821-1822
- Thomas Baines, 1822
- Hosea Holcombe, -1827
- Robert Marsh, 1828-1831
- T. W. Cox, 1831-1834
- James DeVotie, 1836-1840
- Henry Talbird, 1842-1843
- Thomas Curtis, 1843-1848
- Basil Manly Jr, 1849
- Azor Van Hoose, 1850-1852
- Joshua Foster, 1852-1855
- Archibald Battle, 1855-1856, 1858-1859 (interim)
- J. K. Barry, 1857
- Charles Manly, 1859-1871
- William Williams, 1872-1877
- William Sanders, 1878
- Oliver Gregory, 1879
- James Phillips, 1880-1884
- Jacob Dill, 1884-1888
- David Ramsey, 1888-1892
- Lemuel Dawson, 1892-1924
- Joseph Boone, 1925-1933, 1949-1951 (interim)
- Powhatan James, 1933-1944
- N. D. Timmerman, 1945-1949
- Lucius Marion Jr, 1951-1961
- Arthur Jackson, 1961 (interim)
- Clarence Randall, 1962-1982
- Rick Lance, 1983-1998
- Charles Carter, 1998-2000 (interim)
- Gil McKee, 2000-present
References
- Guffin, R. L. (2008) "History of First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa" - accessed January 24, 2018
- "First Baptist Church marks bicentennial year" (January 20, 2018) The Tuscaloosa News