- Title
- Arena Stephens at Friendship Baptist Church
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- Date of Creation
- 1925
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- Description
- Arena Lee Stephens (later, Arena Lee Parks) turned the first spade of dirt for ground breaking of Friendship Baptist Church at 80 Dayton on 1 March 1925. The African American Church was founded on 2 September 1893 by an organizing council meeting called by Reverend C. H. Anderson, pastor of Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles. Early meetings were held at 12 Kansas (now Green) Street under Reverend J. M. Fowler. The second pastor, Reverend J. H. Kelly erected the first church building on South Vernon in 1897 for $950.00. Dr. Carter oversaw the building of this 1925 effort. Arena Stephens was born in 1914 in Tate, Georgia and came to Pasadena with her parents, John and Hattie Stephens, and her siblings, Ruth, Naomi, and John O., in 1917.
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- Display File Format
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- Repository
- ["Pasadena City College Shatford Library"]
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Arena Stephens at Friendship Baptist Church
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