Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 59
In 1963, the congregation of Ruffner Valley Baptist Church erected a new mid-century traditional building at 557 Ruffner Road in Irondale, Alabama. This congregation closed in 2019 and transfered its property to a Spanish speaking congregation known as Iglesia Cristiana Agape.
The church was organized in 1960 and the building erected in that year. The cornerstone states the church was dedicated on “April 14, 1963” which was Easter Sunday. This may have been the date that the building was completed, furnished, and paid for.
The plans for this celebration no doubt had long predated the civil rights movement’s “Operation C” in nearby Birmingham. Nevertheless, this was the Easter Sunday that fell during the eight days that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent in Birmingham City Jail. It was during which he began writing his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.
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