6th Avenue Zion Hill Baptist Church

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6th Avenue Zion Hill Baptist Church was a Baptist church founded in the 1930s and located at 1414 6th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham. Its brick sanctuary, completed in 1958, featured a south-facing porch gable supported on four thin brick piers. A moulded white steeple crowned the gable roof. A cross-gable at the rear of the church

On April 12, 1963 the church was used as a starting point for a scheduled Good Friday march, headed by Martin Luther King Jr along with Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth. The march was the first appearance for King in a public demonstration during the Birmingham Campaign, and was highly anticipated in the black community.

The former church building is now the home of the Deliverance Temple Inter-Faith Church.

Pastors

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