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Fourth Baptist Church

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Area
  
1 acre (0.40 ha)

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival

VLR #
  
127-0318

Built
  
1884 (1884)

NRHP Reference #
  
79003291

Fourth Baptist Church

Location
  
2800 P St., Richmond, Virginia

Fourth Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1884, and is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure. It features a distyle portico in antis elevated on a high podium. It consists of two unfluted Doric order columns and paired pilasters supporting a Doric entablature. Attached to the church is a Sunday School building erected in 1964.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. A former pastor was Richmond mayor Leonidas B. Young, II, who was convicted of defrauding the church at one point during his career.

References

Fourth Baptist Church Wikipedia