Centennial

The Southern Baptist Convention created the Baptist Bible Institute in 1917 at a meeting in New Orleans, the first institution it founded directly. Byron H. Dement was its president until 1928, and it began on Washington Avenue in the Garden District. On May 17, 1946, the convention revised the charter and renamed it New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1953 it moved to a former 75-acre pecan orchard in Gentilly, on a campus designed by A. Hays Town. In 1995 it opened a campus inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and by 2022 it ran six prison campuses.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 3.2 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Cabildo — 3.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.4 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 3.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Brothers of the Sacred Heart — 0.9 mi
• Pontchartrain Park Historic District — 1.0 mi
• London Avenue Canal Floodwall Breach — 1.5 mi
• In Memory of the First Barrow Stadium — 1.8 mi