Old Sardis Baptist Church, 1240 Fourth St. North in Enon Ridge, hosted the first mass meeting of the Birmingham civil rights movement on June 5, 1956.

The Rev. Samuel P. Pettagrue Jr., who was pastor of Sardis Baptist Church in Birmingham from 1971-2006 was convicted in 2009 for his role in a kickback scheme, died on Sunday. Sardis Baptist grew ...

There will be a grand celebration beginning at 11 this morning at New Sardis Baptist Church’s annual African-American History Celebration. The church at 7739 E. Holmes Road itself is an ...

Birmingham, Alabama -- The Rev. Samuel Pettagrue, pastor of the 3,000-member Sardis Baptist Church, and a group of 35 volunteers are in the African nation of Ghana this week, distributing medicine ...

Sardis was originally founded as the Hodges Meeting House, close to where U.S. 401 crosses Little River. Services for Scottish farming families were held in both English and Gaelic.