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They founded Bethel Church (which means âGodâs Houseâ), with the purpose of allowing people to study the Bible for themselves and to experience the Power of God without being restricted by unnecessary religious formality. Over the past ninety years many thousands of people have attended the church.
It is important now to visit another church, one in the neighborhood of Collegeville. Though Sixteenth Street Baptist was the church that drew worldwide attention, it was Birminghamâs Bethel Baptist Church that is credited with shaping the Civil Rights Movement here. A civil rights legend, the Reverend Frederick Lee âFredâ Shuttlesworth, was pastor of Bethel Baptist Church from 1953 through 1961.