Selma University, Selma

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Selma University is a Private historically black Baptist Bible college in Selma, Alabama. It is affiliated with the Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention. ()

Established: 1878 (146 years ago)Coordinates: 32°25'12"N, 87°1'57"W

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1501 Selma AveSelma United States

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Selma University – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Selma Mall, Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, Sturdivant Hall, Edmund Pettus Bridge.

1.2 miNE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Selma Mall, Selma
32 min walk • Selma Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Selma, Alabama. The mall opened in 1971 with Sears, Britt's and S.H. Kress as its major stores. By the 1990s, Kress had become McCrory Stores, and Beall-Ladymon had joined as a central anchor. The anchor stores are Treasure Box Flea and Antique Mall and Belk.
1.1 miS
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, Selma
28 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.
0.5 miSE
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Sturdivant Hall, Selma
14 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.
1.4 miSE
Famous landmark in civil rights history
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma
35 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.
1.5 miSE
Museum, History museum
National Voting Rights Museum, Selma
39 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 miS
Cemetery
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma
27 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.
1 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma
26 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.
0.9 miSE
Church
First Baptist Church, Selma
24 min walk • 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.
1.1 miSE
Sacred and religious sites, Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma
28 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 miNE
32°25'51"N • 87°1'9"W
Junebugg's Flea & Antique Mall, Selma
28 min walk • Antiques, Shopping, Shopping centre
1.3 miSE
32°24'31"N • 87°0'50"W
Old Depot Museum, Selma
35 min walk • Museum, History museum

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Which popular attractions are close to Selma University?

Nearby attractions include Sturdivant Hall, Selma (14 min walk), John Tyler Morgan House, Selma (14 min walk), Icehouse Historic District, Selma (17 min walk), Wesley Plattenburg House, Selma (19 min walk).