Union Baptist Church

New Bedford, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Union Baptist Church stands at 109 Court Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a historic structure built in 1899 and designed by architect Nathaniel Cannon Smith in the Shingle Style. The congregation itself was founded in 1895 through the merger of two African American churches that had separated decades earlier. The church traces its institutional roots to the pre-Civil War era, when it played a leading role in assisting fugitive slaves in New Bedford. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.