Members of a Baptist church in Atlanta gathered for the last time May 25 in a historic building being demolished to make way for a new Atlanta Falcons football stadium.
Friendship Baptist Church, established in 1862 and independently organized as Atlanta’s first autonomous black Baptist congregation after the Civil War in 1866, voted last year to sell its home since 1871 for $19.5 million. The building last renovated in 1998 will be demolished to clear the site for a new $1.3 billion retractable-roof stadium scheduled to open for the 2017 NFL season.
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