Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 104

I’ve seen lots of churches with cornerstones (or date stones, they aren’t always on the corner) and I’ve seen a fair number of churches that are rebrick with stone quoins on the corner. They are particularly common on twentieth-century Colonial Revival churches. But this church in the western section of Birmingham’s East Lake neighborhood is the first that I have seen with the date inscriptions on the quoins, particularly two of the quoins.

George Turner, the architect designed many Methodist churches in Birmingham. The building to the left appears to be the church’s first unit, probably erected in the 1920s and does not appear to have a cornerstone. It is located on the northwest corner of Division and 67th Street North in Birmingham (the church lists its address as 10 67th Street North).

The building is now the home of Ninevah Missionary Baptist Church. City directories state that Ninevah was located at 6200 59th Avenue North in 1981. That address appears to have been in an area cleared for a buffer for the north-south runway of the Birmingham airport. By 1990 the church was located at 1924 Willie Payne Circle North.

Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.

Map of Sites in this Project

This post was not numbered into the series when it was originally posted. It has been retroactively numbered in on May 14, 2024, as 104. It was updated with Ninevah’s earlier addresses on June 4, 2024.