Fountain Street Church (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Choir

Fountain Street Church traces its history to the founding in 1826 of a Baptist missionary church in what would later become Grand Rapids. In 1837 the "Thomas Mission" became the First Baptist Church of Grand Rapids. By 1848 the congregation of First Baptist worshipped at a church located at Crescent and Division streets. Twenty years later the congregation moved to a small building located on the corner of Fountain and Bostwick streets.

By 1856 another group of Baptists had arrived in Grand Rapids and organized their own congregation, Second Baptist Church. The two congregations voted to merge in 1869, forming the Baptist Church of Grand Rapids under the leadership of pastor Samuel Graves.

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