The Azusa Street revival
- When
- 1906–1909 AD
- Where
- Los Angeles
- Kind
- Revival
A racially mixed revival in a disused mission, from which Pentecostalism spread worldwide within a generation.
A revival led by William J. Seymour, the son of former slaves, in a disused building on Azusa Street in Los Angeles, running almost continuously for three years. What drew attention first was tongues, held as the evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit; what drew as much comment at the time was that the meetings were interracial, with Black and white worshippers together in 1906, and that women led. Visitors carried the movement out along the rail lines and by 1910 it was on every continent. Within a decade the American churches that came out of it had largely divided along racial lines, which Pentecostals have been reckoning with since.
Bodies it bears on
Began here
Who stands here
- William J. Seymour
1870–1922
Led it, from a disused building on Azusa Street
Either side of it
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