By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church was founded June 18, 1881, in Birmingham. Located at 1101 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in south Titusville, the church is Birmingham’s largest black church, with more than 5,000 members. The first church building was located at 16th Street and Sixth Avenue South. The church hosted the 23rd session of the Colored Baptist Convention of Alabama in November 1890. In 1910, the original frame building of Sixth Avenue Baptist Church was replaced with a masonry edifice designed by African-American architect Wallace Rayfield.
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