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Spruce Street Baptist Church
at the Spruce Street Baptist Church on 20th Ave. near Pearl St, Nashville,
TN ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
36° 9' 28.26",
-86° 48' 15.359976"
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Tennessee State
Historical Marker
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Spruce Street Baptist Church was originally a part of the First Colored Baptist Church, founded in 1848 as a ?mission? of the First Baptist Church. Nashville's first black ordained minister, the Rev. Nelson G. Merry, served as pastor. In 1865, the church formally gained its autonomy from the white church. Spruce Street Baptist Church in 1895 became (Cont.)
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the second branch of the city's first black Baptist church to organize a separate assembly. Formerly located near Capitol Hill, under Pastor Dr. A.M. Townsend, the first alumnus of Meharry Medical College to serve on its board of trustees, in 1955 the church body moved into this edifice designed by the architectural firm of McKissack and McKissack.
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Spruce Street Baptist Church Historical Marker Location Map, Nashville, Tennessee Map
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