Olivet Baptist Church
Olivet Baptist Church is a church located in Chicago, Illinois. The congregation first formed in 1861 through the merger of two African-American congregations.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Baptist
- Description: church in USA
- Address: 3101 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL 60616
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dunbar Park and Chess Records.
Dunbar Park
Park
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Dunbar Park is a park located at 300 East 31st Street in the Douglas community of South Side, Chicago, Illinois. The 20-acre site was acquired in 1962, and transformed into Dunbar Park between 1964 and 1966.
Chess Records
Museum
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Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. Chess Records is situated 1¼ miles north of Olivet Baptist Church.
Dunbar High School
School
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Dunbar Vocational High School is a public 4–year vocational high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Dunbar High School is situated 910 feet northwest of Olivet Baptist Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Douglas and Armour Square.
Douglas
Suburb
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Douglas, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.
Armour Square
Suburb
Armour Square is a Chicago neighborhood on the city's South Side, as well as a larger, officially defined community area, which also includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.
Bronzeville
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Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown. Gwendolyn Brooks published poetry in the Chicago Defender, Andrew Rube Foster created Negro League Baseball, and Louis Armstrong kept his trumpet singing at the Sunset Cafe to keep Al Capone off his back.
Olivet Baptist Church
- Categories: Protestant church building, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.83818° or 41° 50′ 17″ northLongitude
-87.61662° or 87° 36′ 60″ westElevation
600 feet (183 metres)Levels
2Open location code
86HJR9QM+79OpenStreetMap ID
way 150886934OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=baptistGeoNames ID
4904770Wikidata ID
Q18209536
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In Other Languages
“Olivet Baptist Church” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Igreja Batista das Oliveiras”
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