First Norwegian Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).
Biographical notes:
The Baptist faith was practiced as early as the 17th and 18th centuries in the territories and colony that are now known as New York City. However, a Baptist house of worship did not come to Brooklyn until 1823, with the founding of the First Baptist Church (later known as the Baptist Temple). In 1847, the first African-American Baptist church in Brooklyn, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, was founded. Baptists were one of the largest denominations in the City of New York during the mid-19th century, continuing to grow with the influx of immigrants into the 20th century.
- Sources
- Younger, George D. "Baptists." In The Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson, 75-76. New Haven: Yale University Press; New York: New-York Historical Society, 1995.
From the guide to the Baptist churches of Brooklyn publications and ephemera, 1840-1957, (Brooklyn Historical Society)
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