First Baptist Church, Selma

Name: First Baptist Church
Address: 709 Martin Luther King St, Selma, 36703, United States
Telephone: +1 334-874-7331

#8 among attractions in Selma

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First Baptist Church is a historic church at 709 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street in Selma, Alabama. A historically African American Baptist church, it was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1894 and known for its association with the Civil Rights Movement. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. ()

Built: 1894 (130 years ago)Coordinates: 32°24'51"N, 87°1'5"W

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709 Martin Luther King StSelma 36703 United States

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+1 334-874-7331

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First Baptist Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, Sturdivant Hall, Edmund Pettus Bridge, National Voting Rights Museum.

0.8 miSW
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, Selma
20 min walk • The Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, also known by a variety of other names throughout its history, is a historic Greek Revival building in Selma, Alabama. Completed in 1847, it has served many functions in the more than 160 years of its existence.
0.6 miW
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Sturdivant Hall, Selma
17 min walk • Sturdivant Hall, also known as the Watts-Parkman-Gillman Home, is a historic Greek Revival mansion and house museum in Selma, Alabama, United States. Completed in 1856, it was designed by Thomas Helm Lee for Colonel Edward T. Watts.
0.7 miS
Famous landmark in civil rights history
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma
17 min walk • The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.
0.8 miS
Museum, History museum
National Voting Rights Museum, Selma
21 min walk • The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to...
1.1 miSW
Cemetery
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma
29 min walk • Old Live Oak Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Selma, Alabama that was founded in 1829 and expanded in 1877. The newer portion is sometimes called New Live Oak Cemetery and the cemetery is collectively known as Live Oak Cemetery.
0.4 miSW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma
11 min walk • St. Paul's Episcopal Church is an historic red brick Gothic Revival church located at 210 Lauderdale Street in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States.
~850 ftSE
Sacred and religious sites, Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma
5 min walk • Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Selma, Alabama, United States.
1.1 miN
32°25'51"N • 87°1'9"W
Junebugg's Flea & Antique Mall, Selma
29 min walk • Antiques, Shopping, Shopping centre
0.5 miSE
32°24'31"N • 87°0'50"W
Old Depot Museum, Selma
12 min walk • Museum, History museum
0.5 miS
32°24'28"N • 87°0'57"W
Ancient Africa Enslavement & Civil War Museum, Selma
12 min walk • Museum
0.5 miSW
Neighbourhood
Old Town Historic District, Selma
13 min walk • The Old Town Historic District is a 323-acre historic district in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. It is bounded by U.S. Route 80, Broad and Franklin streets, and Dallas and Selma avenues. The boundaries were increased on December 15, 2003.

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Nearby attractions include Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma (5 min walk), Wesley Plattenburg House, Selma (7 min walk), St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma (11 min walk), Old Depot Museum, Selma (12 min walk).