First Baptist Church (South Perry Street, Montgomery, Alabama)

First Baptist Church
LocationSouth Perry Street, Montgomery, Alabama
CountryUnited States
DenominationSouthern Baptist Convention
Administration
DivisionAlabama Baptist Convention
Clergy
Senior pastor(s)Mark Bethea

The First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist megachurch in Montgomery, Alabama. The First Baptist Church building is located downtown on South Perry Street. Founded in 1829, it had a mixed congregation (consisting of enslaved and free blacks as well as whites) until 1867 when most African-American members (themselves often the slaves of the white congregationalists) branched off to found their own church, initially called "First Baptist Church, colored" a few blocks away on Ripley Street.

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