17th Street Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God

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17th Street Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God was a Pentecostal church located in the former building of Knesseth Israel at 630 17th Street North on the corner of 7th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham. It was active in the civil rights movement and was recognized by the Birmingham Historical Society as a "movement church".

The congregation later moved to 1120 24th Street North and took the name AOH Cathedral in recognition of its role as the headquarters of the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God denomination. Still later it moved to Center Point where it took the name New Jerusalem Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God and then later at a different Center Point site Cathedral of the Cross A.O.H. Church of God.

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References

White, Marjorie Longenecker (1998) A Walk to Freedom: The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1956-1964. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society. ISBN 0943994241

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