The Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church has been a corner stone in the Birmingham community since May 3, 1891. Originally known as “Shiloh Baptist Church”. It was located on Avenue G and Nineteenth Street South, diagonally across from what is now the Veteran’s Hospital. At one point, our church was one of the largest churches in Birmingham. It had a seating capacity of 3000. It always has been and is today a church that is richly blessed with people that love the Lord and Shiloh.

The church’s site was rezoned for business, it was sold and the church relocated on Fourteenth Street and Avenue G. That location is where the current parking deck facilities for Cooper Green Hospital is. Two temporary structures, one for storage and one for worship were constructed. The basement of the brick structure was ready for worship in 1927. Even in the days of being in the basement on Fourteenth Street on the south side of Birmingham, Shiloh was a pillar of the community. The depression and other factors caused the name of the church to become Greater Shiloh. The upper level was finally completed in October 1961. The church was forced to move to our present location as a result of Medical Center expansion in May 1968. A rich history lives in the past and an even richer future is just ahead.