Keeping the legacy alive.

Come experience the powerful history of Old Sardis Baptist Church.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have temporarily suspended in-person tours.

Perfectly positioned for the movement.

Old Sardis Baptist Church is in the Enon Ridge neighborhood, a historically black neighborhood in the Smithfield Community. It was dubbed “Dynamite Hill” because of the frequency of racially motivated bombings that occurred in the area as black middle-class families moved into the previously all-white neighborhood in the 1960s. Being on the borderline between the black and white neighborhoods, the church was chosen as the meeting place for strategic planning during the Civil Rights Movement.

Because of its significance, Old Sardis is a part of the Alabama African-American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium.

The church was featured in AAACRHSC’s Voices of Alabama Project.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have temporarily suspended in-person tours.