Missionary Baptist Baptist Church

The church was organized in 1853 by 10 African Americans who were former members of Stone Street Baptist Church. It is the second-oldest Missionary Baptist Church in Alabama. The first three pastors were Caucasian; however, following the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865, the church is installed it's first black pastor, Rev. C.A. Levins. In 1869, the Board of School commissioners established a school in the church basement "to educate colored children". At the seventh session of the color Baptist Convention held here in 1874, a resolution passed that was in Alabama's first black theological school later to become Selma University. The present structure was built in 1872, renovated in 1897, and this is as the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.