St John's Evangelical & Reformed Church

Saint John's Evangelical and Reformed Church is a Protestant congregation founded in 1903 by German-Americans. For most of the century it was located in the 2700 block of Clairmont Avenue on the north side. Its name changed several times throughout its history as a result of denominational mergers and the congregation's departure from a denomination. Prior to 1934, it was known as St. John's German Evangelical Church. In 1934 two German-American denominations (the Evangelical Church and the Reformed Church in the United States) merged and it became known as St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church. In 1957 the Evangelical and Reformed Church merged with the Congregational and Christian Churches to form the United Church of Christ and the congregation became known as St. John's United Church of Christ.

Later the congregation, like many from the Evangelical and Reformed tradition, left the United Church of Christ. The congregation also moved to the Brook Highland neighborhood at 7160 Cahaba Valley Road where it took the name Brook Highland Community Church.

In 2018, the congregation left the Brook Highland neighborhood to move Downtown to the Blackwell Building at First Avenue North and 25th Street North. The building it had built was sold to Trinity Presbyterian Church which relocated to it from Cahaba Heights.

References

• Anderson, John (August 30, 2018) "Brook Highland church moving back to downtown Birmingham" Hoover Sun