Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham
16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
This serial nomination proposal is for the three above-named historically African-American churches. Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church was built in stages in 1883-88. It is a Gothic Revival-style rectangular brick structure with a gable roof; its entrance bay has a 2-stage belfry with a pyramidal roof. It is still an active church. Bethel, built in 1926, is a relatively small 3-story L-shaped Gothic Revival style building of wood frame with brick veneer that was vacated by its congregation in 1997, but remains in their ownership. The 16th Street Church, a much larger structure than Bethel, was built in 1909-11 with a combination of what has been described as Romanesque and Byzantine Revival features; it is a 3-story rectangular structure with twin belltowers."
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. This historic church was established in 1877. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was pastor from 1954-1960 and initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the basement of this church after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passengar in a city bus just because she was black. Thanks to Jean Claude for mailing from USA.
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