Friendship Baptist Church
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- romanesque revival
Friendship Baptist Church, organized in 1875 as the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church, is one of Washington's oldest African American congregations. Its former building, built by James A. Boyce in 1886 in a vernacular Romanesque Revival style with Gothic Revival lancet-arch windows, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 after the congregation moved out in 1965.
the building
Corner towers and a mural. The building has a central gable facade flanked by two corner towers. After later use as Miracle Temple of Faith and then Redeemed Temple of Jesus Christ, it is now occupied by the Blind Whino Arts Club, which repainted the exterior with a full wrap-around mural.
the style
The building is described as a vernacular interpretation of the Romanesque Revival style, incorporating Gothic Revival details such as lancet arch windows.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
Friendship Baptist Church is one of Washington's oldest African American congregations, and its former building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
nearby
- Railroad Retirement Board (Mary Switzer Building)
- Mead Center for American Theater
- House Office Building (Cannon House Office Building)
- Thomas Law House
- Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building
- National Museum of the American Indian