16th Street Baptist Church

	16th Street Baptist Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
	16th Street Baptist Church in 2005
Location	Birmingham, Alabama
Coordinates	33°30′59.69″N 86°48′53.26″W / 33.5165806°N 86.8147944°W
Built	1911 / 1873
Architect	Wallace Rayfield; Windham Bros. Construction Co.
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	80000696
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 17, 1980
Designated NHL	February 20, 2006
Designated ARLH	June 16, 1976

The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil Rights District. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2006.^[3]^[4] Since 2008, it has also been on the UNESCO list of tentative World Heritage Sites.^[5]

^ "The Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage" (PDF). preserveala.org. Alabama Historical Commission. April 1, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Sixteenth Street Baptist Church". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 11, 2008. Retrieved October 28, 2007.
^ Amie A. Spinks (November 2004) National Historic Landmark Nomination: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, National Park Service
^ "Civil Rights Movement Sites". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved December 17, 2019.