Emmanuel Baptist Church

The 1950 sanctuary was designed by the New Orleans firm of Favrot and Reed in the English Decorated phase of Gothic Revival. Its beige brick front is dominated by an enormous pointed cast-stone arch, with a rose window, trefoils and a quatrefoil carrying the church's name, and a two-stage bell tower stands at one corner. Inside, a Tudor arch opens to a chancel-like recess with choir seating and a baptismal pool. The figural windows came from Jacoby studios in St. Louis. It is one of only five major Gothic Revival churches in the parish.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — steps away
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 0.9 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Kent Plantation House — 2.2 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 4.8 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.

More markers nearby

• The Hotel Bentley — steps away
• St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Complex — steps away
• Thomas Courtland Manning — steps away
• Alexandria — steps away