1506 Eighth Avenue, corner 16th Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 http://mbcparkslope.com The Memorial Baptist Church was organized in 1872 as a mission in the vicinity of 18th Street and Eighth Avenue. Miss Blauvelt and Miss Morey invited children of the neighborhood to attend meetings so that they might receive religious instruction. As the school increased in size, larger accomodations were found in a building that stood back in the lots off 19th Street. When the school removed to its new quarters, a deacon and the pastor of the Greenwood Baptist Church became interested in the ladies' good work and organized the school as the Greenwood Baptist Bible school. In short time, the school again needed larger quarters and moved to an upper room on Eighth Avenue near 18th Street. Owing to the growth of the school, an independent Baptist church society was organized with forty-five constituent members. The Rev. H.S. Baker, a young minister from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was called to the pastorate of the church on December 30, 1890. The following year, on April 8, 1891, a council of Baptist churches in Brooklyn officially recognized the new society. Lots at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 16th Street were purchased in 1891, and the cornerstone for the present building was laid on November 3, 1891. Built at a cost of $30,000, the granite and brick structure included an auditorium seating about 800 persons, augmented by adjacent Sunday school rooms that could be opened into the auditorium for additional seating. |
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