First African Baptist Church, Protestant church in Franklin Square, Savannah, United States.

First African Baptist Church is a stucco church with a tan-gray body and a central tower. The tower's square lower section has louvered lancet openings and rises to a steep pyramidal roof with a small finial. Below it, the facade centers on a white-painted section with a round window above an arched door surround; rectangular windows with white trim and red-brown frames flank it, and a red double door at the lower right is reached by steps behind a low black metal fence.

George Leile, licensed to preach in Georgia in 1773, converted early members, and Andrew Bryan led the congregation to official recognition with 67 members on January 20, 1788, at Brampton's barn west of Savannah. A frame church followed in 1794 on land Bryan had bought; the congregation took the name First African Baptist Church by 1802. The present sanctuary, built in the 1850s across from Franklin Square, has been in continuous use since.

The holes drilled into the sanctuary floorboards form a pattern read as a Kongo cosmogram, a Central African symbol. During the Civil War the church sheltered runaway slaves in a 4-foot space beneath those boards, and the building served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. The congregation also ran the first Sunday school for African Americans, organized on July 26, 1826.

The church offers guided tours from Tuesday through Saturday between 11 AM and 2 PM, allowing visitors to enter both the sanctuary and the basement. Access involves steps, as the building has no ramps.

The holes drilled into the sanctuary floorboards form a pattern interpreted as a Kongo cosmogram. During the Civil War the church sheltered runaway slaves in a 4-foot space beneath those boards, and the building served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.