Title supplied by cataloger. The term "Missionary Baptist" originated in the early 1800s during the rise of the modern missions movement, which was a movement among Baptists (as well as other Christian denominations) to organize para-church institutions for the promotion and funding of evangelism, Bible and literature publication, schools, charitable and social work, and other religious causes. This movement created extensive controversy among Baptists, drawing harsh criticism from those who considered these new institutions subversive of traditional Baptist polity. Those who opposed the innovations became known as anti-missions, and those advocating them as missionary Baptists. Many of the "missionary Baptist" churches and associations eventually adopted the epithet "missionary" into their official names, and, what started as a descriptive term became a new religious denomination - Missionary Baptists. However, the name never became universally used among the advocates of the missionary institution. Photograph shows a close-up of the Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church cornerstone, located at 1154 E. 92nd Street and Hooper Avenue. The cornerstone reads: "Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church - Organized 1951 - Built 1953 - Rev. J.S. Townsend - Pastor-Builder - A. G. Mallard, Ch. Of Bd. - O. B. Burkhalter, Clerk". Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church was remodeled in 1978. Photograph dated: December 2005.
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image
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1 photographic print :color ;11 x 16 cm. Photographic prints
Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) Baptist church buildings--California--Los Angeles Church buildings--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs Jeff Allen Houses of Worship Collection photographs
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