Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 106

Zion Spring Baptist Church was founded in Birmingham’s North Avondale neighborhood in 1927. It built its current structure in 1948 and later faced it with brick. The church suffered a signficant fire in 2001, but later repaired and recovered from it. Since 2001 the church has been served by Pastor Adam Mixon, a graduate of my department at Samford University.

The building is also the home of an Episcopal congregation, the Abbey, about which my students have written for Magic City Religion. One of my students also wrote an essay about Zion Spring for that website.

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

Map of Posts in this Project

This is an interactive map. Clicking on any marker will enable you to access a link to the post of the church. The type of marker corresponds to the type of cornerstone at the site. Stones with dates and multiple names, like this, are red. Click here for full information on the markers.