Prospect Hill Missionary Baptist Church
a.k.a. Prospect Hill Baptist Church
1601 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TXAmong the earliest Baptist missions established in San Antonio, the Prospect Hill Baptist Church is the second-oldest permanent Baptist structure in the city. When it was built in 1911, it was the largest and one of the most prestigious Baptist churches in San Antonio. Today it is still among the most pretentious examples of Baptist architecture in that city dating from the period 1861-1925. Prospect Hill was built under the pastorship of T. V. Neal, a Baptist teacher and preacher prominent in Texas and Southern Baptist circles during the early decades of this century. The scale of the church, its ecclesiastical service to the area for five decades, followed by its neighborhood service as a community center, have together made the building a social as well as a visual landmark.
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Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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