First Baptist Church
National Register of Historic Places

First Baptist Church

Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Listed
March 15, 2005
Type
Building
Period
Early Republic
Ref No.
05000182

About this property

Mount Olive Cathedral is a Christian Methodist Episcopal church in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. It is located on the corners of Linden Avenue and Lauderdale Street. The Reverend Dr. Stevey M. Wilburn is the current minister of the cathedral. Mt. Olive Cathedral originally started as a church in the Jug Factory on the corner of South Orleans and Georgia Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. As the congregation grew, the church moved into a building they had rented, and from there a brick church was built on Georgia Avenue. In 1952, the church moved to its current place and became a cathedral. This building was designed by R. H. Hunt for First Baptist Church in 1907. When the white Baptist congregation sold the building to the African American CME one, the cooperation of the segregated churches was reported in an article in the New York Times.

Location

538 Linden Ave.
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
35.13888, -90.04397

Categories

ARCHITECTURE
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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First Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 2005.

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First Baptist Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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