First African Baptist Church

Year: 1877
Style: Greek Revival
City: Richmond, VA
Collection: greek revival

First African Baptist Church was built in 1877 in downtown Richmond in the Greek Revival style, home to a historic African American congregation. It is a Virginia Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

the building

Temple front. The church presents a temple-front facade to the street, the columned Greek Revival portico that gives the 1877 building its civic, templelike presence.

the style

The church was built in the Greek Revival style in 1877, expressed through its temple-front facade.

significance

First African Baptist Church is a Virginia Historic Landmark and is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognized as home to a historic African American congregation.

nearby

Monumental Church 280 ft · Greek Revival
Virginia Department of Highways Building 410 ft · Neoclassical · 1937
Charlotte Williams Memorial Hospital 0.1 mi · Renaissance Revival
First Baptist Church 0.1 mi · Greek Revival
Egyptian Building 0.1 mi · Egyptian Revival · 1845
Oliver Hill Building 0.2 mi · Beaux-Arts

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