First Baptist Church was a historic African-American Baptist church located in the Gainsboro neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. It was built in 1898–1900, and was a large six-bay nave-plan brick church with Romanesque and Gothic detailing. It featured a clipped gable roof and a front bell tower. A one-story Parish Hall was built in 1936. First Baptist Church occupied the building until moving to a new sanctuary in 1982. The church was destroyed by fire in April 1995.

The controversial Reverend Richard R. Jones was the first minister of the church, and guided it through the early stages of planning and construction between 1882 and 1904.

First Baptist Church (Roanoke, Virginia)

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 and delisted in 2001.

First Baptist Church (Roanoke, Virginia)

References

External links

First Baptist Church Gainsboro website

African-American history of Virginia

Former National Register of Historic Places in Virginia

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia

Churches completed in 1900

20th-century Baptist churches in the United States

Baptist churches in Virginia

Churches in Roanoke, Virginia

National Register of Historic Places in Roanoke, Virginia

First Baptist Church (Roanoke, Virginia)