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Montgomery, Alabama: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr., served as the church's pastor in 1954–60.
Baptist
Protestantism
- Areas Of Involvement:
- Christianity
- baptism
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Baptist, member of a group of Protestant Christians who share the basic beliefs of most Protestants but who insist that only believers should be baptized and that it should be done by immersion rather than by the sprinkling or pouring of water. (This view, however, is shared by others who are not Baptists.) Although Baptists do not constitute a single church or denominational structure, most adhere to a congregational form of church government. Some Baptists lay stress upon having no human founder, no human authority, and no human creed.