Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Begins Phase II Restoration
September 2007

On September 10, 2007 the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church at Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta will close for at least a year to begin its Phase II Restoration Project.

Phase II represents the remaining work necessary to restore the church to its period of historic significance, according to Judy Forte, superintendent of the site.  "We are focusing on the 1960's, when Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. returned to Atlanta, as co-pastor of Ebenezer and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference," Forte said.  

When Phase II is completed visitors will be able to fully experience the church that supported the family, spiritual and cultural development of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from the early age of five, when he was baptized there, to his last days of thirty nine years on April 9, 1968 . 

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