Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
in Houston, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 313 Robin Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. It was historically a part of the Fourth Ward.The Antioch Missionary congregation held their first services at a brush arbor along the Buffalo Bayou. The congregation built its first sanctuary in 1867 at the corner of Bagby and Rusk.It was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.Jack Yates once served as the pastor of this church.As of 2003 the church has a "Jesus Saves" sign. Rod Davis of the San Antonio Express-News said that the presence of the sign, which "still makes a footnote to the downtown skyscrapers," was "evidence that the oldest African American Baptist church (1875) in the city thrives as well as it did when the Rev. Jack Yates, a former slave, served as its first pastor."According to the church, the original pews, made by hand, are still used.
