Olivet Baptist Church is a church located in Chicago, Illinois. The congregation first formed in 1861 through the merger of two African-American congregations.[1]
Before 1860, David G. Lett was pastor at the city's leading Black Baptist church, Zoar Church. In March 1860, about 40 parishioners left that church to form Zion Baptist Church led by Jesse Freeman Boulden, with Rev Tansbury leading the old body. Tansbury returned to his previous home in Canada and on December 22, 1861, the two churches combined under Boulden's efforts to form the new church, Olivet Baptist Church, where Boulden served until 1863. Nancy Green was a founding member of the congregation of the church.[2] Boulden then resigned and Richard DeBaptiste became its new pastor in August 1863.[3] DeBaptiste served until February 1882. He was followed by James Alfred Dunn Podd who served until his death in late 1886.
During its heyday, the church was the largest African-American church in the United States, and the largest Protestant congregation in the world.[4] The congregation increased greatly in size in the 1920s due to the Great Migration, when the church provided services and structure to Southern blacks who had relocated to the north, bringing the congregation to 11,000.[5] By the 1940s the congregation numbered 20,000.[6]
The church is the oldest operating African American Baptist church in Chicago.[4]
Referencesedit
^Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat (2004). The Spiritual Traveler-- Chicago and Illinois: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Peaceful Places. Paulist Press. pp. 119–. GGKEY:PBDA8U4D2CK.
^"Nancy Green". Kentucky Center for African American Heritage 2024. Kentucky Center for African American History. 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^Fisher, Miles Mark. The Master's Slave, Elijah John Fisher: A Biography. Judson Press, 1922. p178
^ abBest, Wallace. "Olivet Baptist Church". Encyclopedia of Chicago. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
^Steven Reich (17 April 2014). The Great Black Migration. ABC-CLIO. pp. 413–. ISBN978-1-61069-666-1.
^Peter J. Paris (1991). Black Religious Leaders: Conflict in Unity. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 38–. ISBN978-0-664-25145-1.
Further readingedit
Olivet Baptist Church (Chicago, Ill.) (1926). "Just a Decade" in Olivet: 1916-1926. Olivet Baptist Church.
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