Azusa Street Pictures


William J. Seymour and his wife,
Jenny Moore.
This is dear Brother William J. Seymour, who came to Los Angeles from Houston Texas. He often said, Dear loved ones, these meetings are different from any you ever saw in all your born days.  These are Holy Ghost meetings and no flesh can glory in the presence of God."
This is dear Brother Bartleman who had such a burden for Los Angeles.  The picture was taken in 1906 and was published in his book How Pentecost Came To Los Angeles in April of 1925.













This is Brother Bartleman's 8th and Maple Mission. 
Parham's School at Topeka Kansas
















Charles Parham's Topeka Kansas Bible School Where the Holy Ghost Fell on January 1st, 1900  

"The Father of Pentecost"

Charles Fox Parham gave his life to restore the revolutionary truths of healing and the baptism of the Holy Spirit to the Church, but the evangelist paid a price for it. The relentless backlash of persecution and slander Parham endured throughout his life would have destroyed others of lesser character, but for Parham, it only served to strengthen his hardened determination and purposeful faith. Though several men sought to destroy him, they could not touch the pillar of strength that was built within his spirit.

In 1905, Charles Parham came to Houston to preach the full Gospel message and to open a Bible college. One of his students, William Joseph Seymour, later accepted a call to minister in Los Angeles, where the little mission on Azusa Street radiated the message around the world. Now at the end of the century, this movement numbers more than 400 million Spirit-filled believers, nearly one-quarter of all Christians worldwide. It is the fastest growing Gospel outreach in Christendom.

Azusa Street Church
Azusa Street Mission 1906










Azusa Street Mission--312 Azusa Street circa 1906
This precious brother is Hiram Smith, Brother Seymour's coworker. He was a well known Methodist preacher, greatly loved by all who knew him. He and Brother Seymour signed the ministerial licenses.













Picture of the Stevens African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church at 312 Azusa Street. In early April. A Los  Angeles newspaper referred to it as a “tumble down shack.” It had recently been used as a livery stable and tenement house. Discarded lumber and plaster littered the large, barn-like room on the ground floor. This would be the beginning of the Azusa Street Mission and the start of the greatest out-pouring of the Holy Ghost in the Twentieth-Century.













Azusa Street Mission Revival Committee

 

 

 

Seymour went to the home of Richard and Ruth Asberry at 214 North Bonnie Brae Street. Five weeks later, Lee became the first to speak in tongues. Seymour then shared Lee’s testimony at a gathering on North Bonnie Brae and soon many began to speak in tongues. Word of these events traveled quickly in both the African-American and white communities. For several nights, speakers preached on the porch to the crowds on the street below. Finally, after the front porch collapsed, the group rented the former Stevens African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church at 312 Azusa Street in early April.

Seymour's Grave















The Apostolic Faith Mission of Portland, Oregon founded in 1908 by Florence Crawford--a member of Azusa Street--continued publishing the newspaper to this day.

After Parham's death in early 1929, friends collected contributions for a pulpit-shaped marker to be placed over his grave in Baxter Springs Kansas
(photo courtesy of Marilyn Schmitt, Cherokee County Kansas Genealogical-Historical Society)

Parham and Others


Azusa Street's former location in Los Angeles 2003 map		 Seymour and Others

Most of these photos can be purchased by visiting the Assemblies of God's Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center

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