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Title
Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church, exterior
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Allen, Jeff
Date Created and/or Issued
2005
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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.
View of Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1154 E. 92nd Street and Hooper Avenue. The gray building has a stone facade, gray roof, gated main entrance with windows on either side, a sign with the church name and simple white cross above entrance. Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1951; built in 1953; and remodeled in 1978. Photograph dated: December 2005.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :color ;11 x 16 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00075658
Jeff Allen Houses of Worship Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b84_f3_i6
CARL0000080436
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120811
Subject
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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