Ebenezer Baptist Church facts for kids

Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Atlanta, United States. It is part of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA.

It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The funerals of both Dr. King and congressman John Lewis where held here.

It is the church for which United States Senator-elect Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. It is located in the historic area, now called the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.

Images for kids

Interior of the church building in 1979
Horizon Sanctuary in 2016
Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., comforting their 5-year-old daughter, Bernice
Martin Luther King Sr at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1979
Visitor center
Martin Luther King Sr., Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, and Jimmy Carter at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1979
President Bill Clinton, Dexter King and Coretta Scott King at the church in 1996