Sardis Baptist Church, Baptist church near Union Springs, Alabama, United States

Sardis Baptist Church is a Greek Revival church built in 1850 near Union Springs, Alabama. Its four columns support a full entablature and a low-pitched roof, and each of its two primary entrances has double-paneled doors with unadorned molding. Each side of the building has four tall, shuttered, 18-light windows.

Settlers from the Edgefield District, South Carolina, organized Sardis Baptist Church on June 10, 1837. John M. Dozier and his wife Amy Youngblood Dozier deeded four and a half acres for a building and cemetery, and a log cabin went up in 1841. The present Greek Revival building dates from 1850; the congregation became inactive in the 1950s. It was listed on the Alabama Register on December 19, 1991, and the National Register on November 29, 2001.

The church became inactive in the 1950s, so no congregation worships here today. Its cemetery holds the grave of Moses E. Martin, who died May 18, 1848, the oldest tombstone on the grounds. Part of the burial ground near the building served the African-American community in the early years, and the Martins let the church extend it southward onto their land after buying it from the Doziers in 1860.

The church stands near Union Springs, Alabama, at the corner of Highway 223 and County Road 22, where the old Sardis School once operated. The building is inactive for worship and was repaired in 1940-41 and 1992-93, so visits are to the exterior and the adjoining cemetery. Look for the oldest tombstone, that of Moses E. Martin, died May 18, 1848.

The oldest marked grave in the church cemetery is that of Moses E. Martin, who died on May 18, 1848. William Andrew Martin and his wife Nancy Strom Martin, who bought the adjoining land from the Doziers in 1860, let the church extend the cemetery south onto their property.