One of Atlanta’s most famous houses of worship is Ebenezer
Baptist Church, where three generations
of Martin Luther King Jr.’s family has preached since
1927.
Other prominent African-American churches
include Wheat
Street Baptist Church, founded
in 1869, Big Bethel AME Church, established in 1847, and
Cascade United Methodist
Church in southwest Atlanta.
Atlanta’s first black Baptist
independent congregation worshipped at Friendship
Baptist Church.
Bishop Eddie L. Long and The Rev. Bernice
King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta
Scott King, preach at New
Birth Missionary Baptist Church,
the largest predominantly African-American church in the
Southeast with more than 25,000 members and the site of the
funeral of Coretta Scott King in February 2006. World Dome,
the 8,500-seat sanctuary of the World
Changers Church International,
the ministry of Creflo A. Dollar,
is in College Park.
North of Midtown, Buckhead is home
to numerous churches, including New
Hope African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was
founded by former slaves in 1872; the nation’s
largest Presbyterian congregation at Peachtree
Presbyterian;
the largest Episcopal congregation
at The
Cathedral of Saint Philip;
Southern Baptist congregations at Second
Ponce de Leon Baptist Church and Wieuca
Road Baptist Church; Cathedral
of Christ the King,
the headquarters to the Catholic archdiocese for North Georgia;
and the Ahavath
Achim Synagogue.
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