The Oakland City United Methodist Church had its beginnings as the first Methodist Sunday School for Oakland City, a community located in southwest Atlanta. The first meeting of the Sunday School took place on September 4, 1910. According to early accounts, the church was organized at some time during that same year. Records indicate, however, that the first quarterly conference for Oakland City Methodist Episcopal Church, South did not take place until February 12, 1912. The congregation met in a succession of temporary locations until the early 1920s when a permanent facility was built at 1093 Arlington Avenue in southwest Atlanta.
The church experienced two periods of rapid growth, the first in the early 1920s when the surrounding residential area was first developed, and again in the post-World War II years of the 1940s. During the mid-to-late 1960s, however, the congregation declined as a result of extensive cultural and racial changes in the community. In 1972 the membership of the Oakland City United Methodist Church voted to relinquish the church holdings to the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, effective July 1, 1973.
From the description of Oakland City United Methodist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) records, 1910-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583772
