Six Principle Baptist Church

Six Principle Baptist Church
Old Baptist Meeting House, sign states the congregation was established in 1665
Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Built: 1703
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#:

78000022

[1]
Added to NRHP: November 21, 1978

Six Principle Baptist Church (also known as Stony Lane Baptist Church, Stony Lane Six Principle Baptist Church and Old Baptist Meeting House) is an historic church at 921 Old Baptist Road in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. As of 2009 it was one of the last surviving historical congregations of the Six Principle Baptist denomination.

History

The cemetery and meeting house building date to 1703. General Six-Principle Baptists were a denomination that developed out of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence. The congregation in North Kingstown was likely founded after 1664 when Reverend Thomas Baker, a member of the Newport congregation, removed to North Kingstown.[2] The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[3] As of 2009 the church still holds weekly Sunday morning services at 10:30AM, and the pastor is John Wheeler.[4]

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Richard Knight, History of the General or Six Principle Baptists in Europe and America: in two parts (Smith and Parmenter, 1827) pg. 265[1]
  3. ^ Stony Lane Six Principle Baptist Church 2009
  4. ^ Stony Lane Six Principle Baptist Church website, accessed 2009

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