Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church was a Presbyterian congregation formerly located in what is now downtown Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

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History

The church was incorporated under the name Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church on February 25, 1848. In 1876, the church's name was changed to Broadway Tabernacle Presbyterian Church.

Dr. A. B. Simpson

Albert Benjamin Simpson

Albert Benjamin "A.B." Simpson was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance , an evangelical Protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism....

 pastored the church from 1874 to 1879. He would later found the Christian and Missionary Alliance

Christian and Missionary Alliance

The Christian and Missionary Alliance is an evangelical Protestant denomination within Christianity.Founded by Rev. Albert Benjamin Simpson in 1887, the Christian & Missionary Alliance did not start off as a denomination, but rather began as two distinct parachurch organizations: The Christian...

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Pastors

1849?-1858? Leroy Jones Halsey

1870-1874 Dr. Gilbert H. Robertson

1874-1879 Dr. Albert Benjamin Simpson

Albert Benjamin Simpson

Albert Benjamin "A.B." Simpson was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance , an evangelical Protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism....