This article was updated on June 27, 2025, at 9:10 a.m.
Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock announced Wednesday that they are reintroducing legislation to have Atlanta’s West Hunter Street Baptist Church acknowledged as a National Historic Site.
Established in 1881 and located on its current West End property since 1972, the lawmakers are working to preserve the church’s former location at 775 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Vine City.
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