The year was 1927; Calvin Coolidge was president, the average annual salary was $2474.00, gasoline was .122 cents per gallon, bread .12 cents a loaf, the song “Ole Man River” was heard for the first time, and the talking movie was invented. The city of Paterson was known as the silk city of the world because of the many factories here that produced silk products. At this time, Paterson was populated by people of various ethnicities and cultures. Into this diverse and rich culture came the first wave of blacks who migrated from the rural areas of the south to the industrial north.

In this same year the St. Luke Baptist Church of Paterson, NJ was organized by a band of eight believers whose common faith in God brought them together to organize a mission where they could worship God and live out the tenets of their faith. After meeting in several locations over a short period of time, these believers secured a place to worship and met faithfully in a small building located on what was then Lane Street (in the vicinity of what is now Presidential Boulevard and Clinton Streets). In March of 1928, this mission was officially recognized by the New Hope Baptist Association, set apart, and named the St. Luke Baptist Church.

 

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