![The Constitution of the Synzygus Verein of the First German Baptist Church, which appears to have been adopted prior to 1915.](https://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/first_baptist2.jpg)
The Constitution of the Synzygus Verein of the First German Baptist Church, which appears to have been adopted prior to 1915.
The records of the First German Baptist Church or Deutsche Baptisten-Kirche of Cincinnati have been fully processed and a finding aid is now available on the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository. The collection holds various records for the church between 1880 and 1991 including church meeting minutes, financial records, and Sunday school attendance sheets. The material in the collection prior to the 1930s is primarily in German.
The records of the First German Baptist Church illustrate a small, but significant religious movement among Cincinnati Germans in the late nineteenth century. The First German Baptist Church was founded in Cincinnati in 1857, with the assistance of the Ninth Street Baptist Church, whose congregation saw the need for a Baptist missionary movement among German immigrants. Continue reading