The Church at Liberty Park

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The Church at Liberty Park (formerly Fifty-Sixth Street Baptist Church, Woodlawn Baptist Church, and Liberty Park Baptist Church) is a Southern Baptist church founded in 1886 in Woodlawn that relocated to 12001 Liberty Parkway in the Liberty Park section of Vestavia Hills in 1994. Its former church building was sold to East Birmingham Church of God in Christ.

Between its founding and 1910 the church was known variously as Woodlawn Baptist Church and East Birmingham Baptist Church. From 1910 to 1929, it was officially named Fifty-Sixth Street Baptist Church. From 1929 to 1994, it was named Woodlawn Baptist Church. After its relocation, it was known as Liberty Park Baptist Church, until June 2018 when it became the Church at Liberty Park.

Buildings

In Woodlawn, the church had a succession of three church buildings with auditoriums for worship on the same site. The first, completed in 1887, was a wooden Gothic revival with a belfry and spire. The second Greek revival building was designed by architects LaBelle-Kribs and constructed from 1907 to 1912. The third, a striking octagonal auditorium crowned with a tall modern adaptation of a neo-colonial spire, was designed by Lawrence Whitten of Lawernce Whitten & Son. Approved in 1961, it was constructed in 1964 and 1965. It, along with educational and activates buildings, remained standing in Woodlawn when the congregation moved to Liberty Park.

Pastors

External Site

References

  • Allen, Lee N. (1986). Woodlawn Baptist Church: The First Century, 1886-1986. Birmingham, AL: Woodlawn Baptist Church.
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