White Rock Baptist Church

White Rock Baptist Church
White Rock in 2025
Religion
AffiliationBaptist
StatusActive
Location
Location3400 Fayetteville Street
Durham, North Carolina,
United States
Interactive map of White Rock Baptist Church
Architecture
Completed1977
Website
whiterockbaptistchurch.org

White Rock Baptist Church is a historic African-American church in Durham, North Carolina. The congredationw as established in 1866 in the Hayti District. In 1960, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech titled "A Creative Protest" before a crowd of around 1,200 people at the church. The original building was demolished to make way for the Durham Freeway and a new building was constructed further south, on Fayetteville Street, in 1977.