Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 77
As a simple, handsome, red-brick church without a spire, this building at the corner of Oporto-Madrid Boulevard and First Avenue North in East Lake is the kind of building I assume might be a Church of Christ.
Indeed it was erected in 1948 by 77th Street Church of Christ. (Oporto-Madrid was 77th Street at that time). I would call the building Georgian colonial revival (or just colonial revival), but if it doesn’t quite qualify as such, it is definitely what Jay Price has designed “Mid-Century Traditional” not Mid-Century Modern. It is now the home of Agape Missionary Baptist Church, a congegation foundedin 2001. It is only two blocks from the old Howard College campus so if student there were included to visit a Church of Christ, this is where they could have gone.
While just having the church name and date it is not uncommon for churches erected by Whites in Birmingham, it is a definite contrast with that of East Lake United Methodist Church just a block east on First Avenue.
Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.
Chasing Churches 