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First Chinese Baptist Church of San Francisco

Historic site · Chinatown, California

The First Chinese Baptist Church of San Francisco stands at 15 Waverly Place, at the Sacramento Street end of the block. SF Planning records the construction year of 1-15 Waverly Place as 1908.

History

Wikipedia records that the congregation was founded in 1880 by the missionary J. B. Hartwell as a Southern Baptist mission in a rented storefront, and that a permanent church under the Home Mission Board was established in 1888 at Waverly Place and Sacramento Street. The congregation broke away with thirteen others over Mayor Isaac Kalloch's anti-Chinese politics and became Northern Baptist. The building burned in the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake, and the congregation moved to Oakland while it was rebuilt.

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15 Waverly Place, San Francisco, CA

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