Dorchester Temple Baptist Church is a historic African American Baptist church at 670 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It is now known as Global Ministries Christian Church.

The church was designed in 1889 by Arthur H. Vinal in the shingle style and added to the National Historic Register in 1998. The church was built for a Baptist congregation established in 1886, and is the oldest Baptist church building in Dorchester. It suffered some damage in the 1938 New England hurricane, which was repaired.

Dorchester Temple Baptist Church

In January 2010 the church started media ministry reaching all of North America under the name Boston Praise Radio, which is available online and via Glorystar Satellite service on channel 1010. In 2016, the church began broadcasting on WBPG-LP 102.9 FM.

Dorchester Temple Baptist Church

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

References

External links

Boston Praise Radio & TV

African-American history in Boston

Churches completed in 1889

Baptist churches in Boston

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

Shingle Style church buildings

National Register of Historic Places in Boston

Dorchester, Boston

Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts

Dorchester Temple Baptist Church