Ebenezer Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist megachurch located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA. It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was pastor from the 1930s and co-pastor together with his sons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1960 until his assassination in 1968 and Alfred Daniel King from 1968 until his death in 1969. It hosted the funerals of both Dr. King and, in its later expanded sanctuary, congressman John Lewis, and it is the church for which United States Senator Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. Its historic church building and expanded sanctuary building are located in the historic area designated as the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park. - Source: Wikipedia
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