RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond's First Baptist Church will no longer be a part of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest protestant denomination in the country.

In 1780, 1400 E. Broad St. was the home of the First Baptist Church. In 1841, free and enslaved Black residents established it as the First African Baptist Church, ... 2025, in Richmond, Va.

The First Baptist Church in Williamsburg was one of the nation’s earliest Black Baptist churches. It was founded in 1776 by Rev. Gowan Pamphlet, who was enslaved and worked in a Williamsburg tavern.

As part of their bicentennial celebration, of First Baptist Church of South Richmond, held a Grand Illumination of the steeple, the highest point in the city’s Manchester area, Sunday 9/12 ...

R ICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Inthrive Film Festival, the first film festival to celebrate the voice and talent of incarcerated survivors, is returning to Richmond’s First Baptist Church.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Richmond City Sheriff’s Office has partnered with multiple Baptist churches in the area to provide mobile showers, starting Tuesday. The program, “Dignity on the ...

The rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches , whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started Thursday with a ...

The Richmond Virginia Temple will be dedicated on May 7 in two sessions by President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency. “The temple isn’t just the Church of Jesus Christ’s temple ...

In the middle of the Church Hill neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia stands a Greek Revival-style landmark seemingly frozen in time. While churchgoers will pass a few industrial-sized dumpsters ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — After more than two years, the archaeological dig at Williamsburg's historic First Baptist Church is over. The excavation at the site of one of the oldest known churches in ...

The current yellow-brick, twin-steeple, high Victorian Gothic church was dedicated in 1902. It recently underwent a renovation of its interior and exterior. The former St. Andrew’s Catholic ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Crews have started working on rebuilding the historic First Baptist Church in Colonial Williamsburg. Freed and enslaved African Americans originally formed the church in 1776.