Canaan Baptist Church

824 Fifteenth Street North, Bessemer, Alabama. County/parish: Jefferson.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 22, 2005. NRIS 05000290.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Canaan Baptist Church (Bessemer, Alabama)

Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in Bessemer, Alabama. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA. Built in 1961, it had a congregation active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835249

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