Title	22nd Avenue Baptist Church: angled front view
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	2005?
Coverage	2000-2009
Property name	22nd Avenue Baptist Church
Property type	Church
Community Name	Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Description	Color photograph of two story building resting on a full raised basement. The gable-front facade has large projecting corner towers with battlemented parapets and large round-arched louvered belfry vents on the outer faces while smaller Gothic-arched vents are on the inner faces. A wide stone-faced brick and concrete staircase, with dual metal railings, rises from the sidewalk to the sanctuary level entrance.
Historical Notes	22nd Avenue Baptist Church was one of the leading Birmingham churches involved in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in the Civil Rights era. It was also an architecturally significant expression of African-American church design from the first half of the twentieth century and is attributed through church records to the noted African-American architect Wallace Rayfield, who practiced in Birmingham and other Alabama locales in the early twentieth century. The congregation dates to 1878, making it one of the early African-American congregations in North Birmingham.
Collection Name	African American Churches
Subject-LCSH	African American Churches -- Alabama Church buildings -- Alabama
Subject-AAT	Churches
Subject-TGM	Churches
Type	Still image
Genre	Photograph
Medium	Paper
Extent	6 x 4 in.
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission.
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use	Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only.
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University

22nd Avenue Baptist Church: angled front view

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