Ebenezer Baptist Church
church in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ebenezer Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist megachurch located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA. It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was pastor from the 1930s and co-pastor together with his sons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1960 until his assassination in 1968 and Alfred Daniel King from 1968 until his death in 1969. It hosted the funerals of both Dr. King and, in its later-expanded sanctuary, congressman John Lewis. It is the church for which United States Senator Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. Its historic church building and expanded sanctuary building are located in the historic area designated as the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
“Ebenezer Baptist Church” enters the record as church in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ebenezer, Baptist and Church can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q77240068. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1968, 1969 and 2005.
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