First Baptist Church, originally known as Lexington African Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church building in the city of Lexington, Virginia, United States. It was built between 1894 and 1896, and is a large brick church on a limestone basement in the Gothic Revival style. It has a front gable roof, round and lancet-arch stained glass windows, and towers at its two front corners. The right hand tower has a belfry and spire. The interior consists of a barrel-vaulted auditorium with a gallery on turned posts and the basement has classroom and meeting spaces. Historically First Baptist played a central role in the life of Lexington's African-American community.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

First Baptist Church (Lexington, Virginia)

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First Baptist Church Facebook page

African-American history of Virginia

19th-century Baptist churches in the United States

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia

Baptist churches in Virginia

Gothic Revival church buildings in Virginia

Churches completed in 1896

Churches in Lexington, Virginia

National Register of Historic Places in Lexington, Virginia

First Baptist Church (Lexington, Virginia)