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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: First African Baptist Church, 23 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Leile, George
     Bryan, Hannah
     Bryan, Andrew
     First Colored Baptist Church
     Marshall, Andrew
     First African Baptist Church
     Sunbury Association
     Aparicio, Maria , field team
     Arfuso, Olivia , field team
     Barletta, Roberto , field team
     Crotzer, Scott , field team
     Eloshway, Melissa , field team
     Frew, Kyra , field team
     Gibson, Katie , field team
     Hyatt, Andrew , field team
     Jarles, Ryan , field team
     Martin, Elizabeth , field team
     McDonald, Parker , field team
     Morgan, Sarah , field team
     Sommerville, Jennifer , field team
     Smith, Kayla , field team
     Stewart, Marshall , field team
     Keller, Chad , faculty sponsor
     Bush-Brown, Harold , historian
     Andrew, L D , photographer
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 13
  Data Page(s): 8
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS GA,26-SAV,33-
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • 2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: First African Baptist Church was built to be a safe-haven for African Americans to be free to worship beginning in a time even when they were not free themselves. It played an integral role in the establishment, progression, and reinforcement of religious freedom for African Americans in the southern United States. This building was built during a time when most African Americans lived in shanties on the outside of town in deplorable conditions. First African Baptist was the first brick building owned by African Americans in the city of Savannah and was built on the edge of town serving as a symbol of the African American civilization and movement into the city. The church was built in the high style of Romanesque Revival for what was at the time an unlikely group of patrons. First African continued to be vital to the African American community in the twentieth century, particularly during the Civil Rights era. Savannah was a center for racial injustice before and during the Civil Rights Movement just as it had been a center for the horrors of the era of slavery a century prior. First African has been standing and strengthening its black members through the atrocities they’ve faced for many generations.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2219
  • Survey number: HABS GA-276
  • Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1870- before. 1879 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1888 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1940- before. 1949 Subsequent Work
• Subjects:
  • Baptist churches
  • religions
  • African Americans
  • Romanesque Revival architectural elements
  • Greek Revival architectural elements
  • raised basements
  • stucco
  • brick buildings
  • belfries
  • stained glass
  • pipe organs
• Place:
  • Georgia -- Chatham County -- Savannah
• Latitude/Longitude: 32.081375, -81.096191
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS GA,26-SAV,33-
• Medium: Photo(s): 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 13
  Data Page(s): 8

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• Call Number: HABS GA,26-SAV,33-
• Medium: Photo(s): 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 13
  Data Page(s): 8

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