Union Baptist Church is a historic church at 109 Court Street in

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, USA. It was built in 1899 to a design by

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in Shingle Style architecture. The congregation was founded in 1895 by a merger of two

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congregations that had split some four decades earlier. This historical church group was a leading New Bedford institution associated with the assistance of fugitive slaves in the pre-

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period. The building was listed on the

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in 2008.

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Baptist churches in Massachusetts Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Churches completed in 1899 19th-century Baptist churches in the United States Churches in New Bedford, Massachusetts Shingle Style church buildings National Register of Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-church-stub

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