Archival Resources

History Of Religion

 

Contents

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Assembly of God

Baptist Church

Episcopal Church

Greek Orthodox Church

Jewish Community

Methodist Church

Moravian Church

 

Nondenominational

Presbyterian Church

Roman Catholic Church

Unification Church

Other Religious Organizations

Religious Structures

Research Collections


African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH. CHURCH EXTENSION DEPARTMENT Secretary-Treasurer Reports, 1936-1946

Assembly of God

HUFFMAN ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHOIR Recordings

Baptist Church

BIRMINGHAM CONVENTION COMMITTEE. SOUTHERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION CONVENTION Delegate Housing and Committee Minutes, 1891

MANLY, BASIL, JR. Papers, 1838-1892

MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Records, 1949-1978 [Warrior, Alabama church]

TICHENOR, ISSAC TAYLOR Diary, 1850-1903 [Tichenor was a Baptist minister in Alabama and corresponding secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board]

WALKER, ROBERT HENRY, JR. The Trumpet Blast [interviews relating to the stampede and deaths caused by a false fire alarm at Shiloh Baptist Church, Birmingham, 1902]

Periodicals

Alabama Baptist, 1988-

Baptist Leader, 1980-1981 (Microforms); 1982- (Archives)

Episcopal Church

BECKWITH, CHARLES MINNEGRODE Papers

BIRMINGHAM YOUTH, INCORPORATED Records, 1973-1976

CARPENTER, CHARLES COLCOCK JONES Papers, 1920-1969
Description of Collection

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, BIRMINGHAM Records, 1888-1991

CLAIBORNE, RANDOLPH ROYALL Papers, 1949

COBB, NICOLAS HAMMER Papers, 1847-1861 and 1944
Description of Collection

EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ALABAMA Records

FAUNSDALE PLANTATION Papers

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, WOODLAWN Records

McDOWELL, WILLIAM GEORGE Papers, 1906-1938

OPPENBORN, CAROLYN POTTER Papers Relating to Jonathan Myrick Daniels
Description of Collection

ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM Records, 1903-

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ENSLEY Records, 1895-2000
Guide to Collection

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM Records, 1948-1958

WALTER, FRANCIS X. Selma Inter-Religious Project Files, 1965-1972
Description of Collection

WILMER, RICHARD HOOKER Papers, 1873-1904 and 1956
Description of Collection

Greek Orthodox Church

HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH Papers, 1911-1965 [Birmingham]

Jewish Community

COWETT, MARK Research Files on Rabbi Morris Newfield

ELOVITZ, MARK Research Material on Birmingham Jewish History

KNESSETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION Cemetery Record [Birmingham]

KROMAN, EDNA Literary Manuscripts, circa 1920s
Description of Collection

NEWFIELD, MAYER Papers

NEWFIELD, MORRIS Papers, 1868-1940
Description of Collection

STERNE, MERVYN Papers

TEMPLE EMANU-EL Records [Birmingham’s oldest Jewish congregation]

TEMPLE EMANU-EL Minutes, 1889-1960

ULLMAN, SAMUEL From the Summit of Years, Fourscore, "Youth," and Related Material
Description of Collection

Periodicals

Jewish Star, 1976-1983 (Microforms); 1992- (Archives)

Southern Shofar, 1990- (Archives)

Methodist Church

ABERNATHY, THOMAS SMITH Sermons and Notes, 1856-1864 [one of the five founders of the First Methodist Conference of Alabama]
Guide to Collection

CITY BOARD OF MISSIONS Papers, 1903-1985
  [church affiliated women’s organization that sponsored Bible study, day care, kindergarten, community houses, and other activities, especially in Birmingham’s ethnic communities]

DAVIDSON, ARLIE BARBER Papers
Description of Collection

SHADY GROVE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH Register, 1879-1893

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. NORTH ALABAMA CONFERENCE. BIRMINGHAM-EAST DISTRICT Church Histories

WEST END METHODIST CHURCH. WOMEN’S BIBLE CLASS Records, 1916

Moravian Church

REUDE, SOPHIA Papers, 1836-1916 [papers relating to missionary work among the Cherokee Indians]

Nondenominational

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE Records, 1933-1942
Guide to Collection

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH Bulletins, 1972-1995
  [located in the Birmingham suburb of Center Point]

Presbyterian Church

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM. LADIES AID SOCIETY Minutes, 1895-1896

CHAPMAN, REV. JOHN B. AND SALLIE COWLES CHAPMAN Papers,1852-1886

CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Records, 1868-1940

EDMONDS, HENRY MORRIS Daily Column, 1942-1955 [pastor at Independent Presbyterian Church]

EDMONDS, HENRY MORRIS Papers
Description of Collection

INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Records, 1915-1986
  [Birmingham]

KELLER, MARY E. "Sketches in Black and White: A History of Inter-Racial Work, Synodical of  Alabama, 1916-1944"
Guide to Collection

LUKENS, JOHN NEVIUS Papers, 1925-1980 [pastor at Independent Presbyterian Church]

PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF ALABAMA. ORPHANS’ HOME Annual Reports, 1904, 1919, 1924-1926, 1930-1935

WHITING, MARVIN Y. Independent Presbyterian Church History Materials

WYLAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Minutes, 1898-1922

WYLAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Records, 1898-1970

Roman Catholic Church

Periodicals 

One Voice, 1971-1993 (Microforms); 1994- (Archives)

Unification Church

BREEDLOVE, MICHAEL A. Unification Church Papers, 1965, 1974-1981

Other Religious Organizations

FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES OF BIRMINGHAM Minutes, 1911-1923

PROTESTANT PASTOR’S UNION Papers, 1909-1976 [Birmingham]

Religious Structures

AKENHEAD, LINDA AND BARBARA MITCHELL Survey of Six Historic Religious Structures in Birmingham

HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY Photographs—Alabama District

HISTORICAL SITE SURVEYS OF BLOUNT, CHILTON, JEFFERSON, SHELBY, ST. CLAIR, AND WALKER COUNTIES Papers

JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALA. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Appraisal Files, 1939-1977
Description of Collection

JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION Historic Site Survey

Research Collections

MCDAVID, MITTIE OWEN Papers [includes material on some Jefferson County churches]