RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

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Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center collection (Ms. 2008.017)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Collection Overview

Title: Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center collection
Date range: 1867-1980
Creator: Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center
Extent: 7.5 linear feet
Abstract: The Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center, an affiliate of the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island [ABCORI], was established in 2004 to create an official Baptist presence in Providence, Rhode Island. It provides substantive information regarding early English and American Baptists and documents traditional forms of worship and doctrine in the Baptist Church. The collection includes a wide array of church materials documenting organizational and administrative operations, religious practices and beliefs, and the history of the Baptist Church in Rhode Island. It includes registers, reports, correspondence, photographs and church publications dating from as early as 1867 to the late 1980s.
Language of materials: English.
Repository: Brown University Library, Special Collections
Collection number: Ms. 2008.017