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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan

Hiroshima Baptist Church

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Published: Feb. 12, 2011 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025
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SBC missionaries Franklin and Daisy Ray opened work in Hiroshima in 1919. The church meeting place moved around the city several times in the early 1920s before they finally acquired this location. It was only used until 1930, when they were finally able to build a traditional type church building.  Info provided by SBC missionaty Russ Borg.

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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan
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