Antioch East Baptist Church Elders have shared their historic photos.
Antioch East Baptist Church members on the steps of their hand-built sanctuary – the Old Stone Church – in Candler Park, 1948. Notice holes in stained glass windows, said to be from golf balls, rocks, etc. (photo courtesy of Mrs. Sophie Carey)Antioch East Baptist Church members’ wedding in the Old Stone Church, 1948 (photo courtesy of Antioch East families).Antioch East Baptist Church Choirs, Old Stone Church, 1940s. Notice “scales of justice” in right window (photo courtesy of Mrs. Miriam Clark).Hooper Street Women …… and Hooper Street Men. Sometime in the 1930s–1950s, Hooper Street friends gathered for photos to document their presence and camaraderie, within the confidence and protection of their Hooper Street community, during the daily uncertainties of the Jim Crow era (photos courtesy of Mrs. Carnella Sloan Mitchell Robinson, who lived her first 11 years on Hooper and has shared historic photos from her mother’s inheritance album).
Miss Mattie Carey (Howard) on steps at the Old Stone Church, 1945 (photo courtesy of Mrs. Mattie C. Howard). Old Bell at Antioch East Baptist Church, Hardee St in Edgewood, 1960–2019 (photo by Edith Kelman)..
Old Bell was at Antioch East Baptist Church, Mayson Av. North/Candler Park Drive in Candler Park, 1923–1950 (photo by Edith Kelman).Stained Glass Window. When Antioch East Baptist Church relocated to Ellenwood GA in 2019, they gave three of the Edgewood Sanctuary’s windows to their Old Stone Church in Candler Park—in fellowship with the First Existentialist Congregation, now stewards of the building and history partners (photo by Edith Kelman).
Old Stone Church, bought from the Candler Park Improvement Corp. by Phoenix Unitarian Fellowship and renovated 1977–1980 (photographer unknown).Digging out the Old Stone Church basement to make a finished space for BOND Childcare, 1978 (photographer unknown).
