Brooklyn · NYC landmark
Antioch Baptist Church and Church House
828 and 826 Greene Avenue · Brooklyn, New York City
A church associated with Black civic life and visiting civil-rights leaders preserves a distinctive late-Victorian front.
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NYFE Summary
The Antioch congregation moved here from downtown Brooklyn in 1950. Under pastor George Lawrence, it supported civil-rights and neighborhood programs. Its guests included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and other Black leaders and artists.
The wide central bay combines tall arched windows with patterned shingles and brick. Different towers and roof shapes give the front the varied scale of its neighboring houses. The congregation later acquired the adjacent house for church use.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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