First Baptist Church, Protestant church in Selma, Alabama, US

First Baptist Church is a Protestant house of worship in Selma situated on Martin Luther King Jr Street with Gothic Revival design. The building displays intricate wooden details and stained glass windows that fill the interior with filtered light.

First Baptist Church was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1894 for a historically African American Baptist congregation. In 1963, under Reverend M. C. Cleveland, it became the first church in Selma to host meetings of the Dallas County Voters League. From 1964 into 1965 it was a base for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee mass meetings and for planning the Selma-to-Montgomery march; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The church served as a gathering place for civil rights activists and provided crucial meeting space during the movement. Visitors can observe how the community used these rooms and the role the congregation played in supporting this work.

The church stands at 709 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, half a block from Brown's Chapel, where the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was headquartered in 1965. The building is an active Baptist congregation, so visits fit around worship; the National Register listing dates from 1979.

In 1963, under Reverend M. C. Cleveland, First Baptist became the first church in Selma to open its doors to meetings of the Dallas County Voters League. In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy and other SCLC leaders spoke nightly here to young people, while the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was headquartered in Brown's Chapel half a block away.