The history of Birmingham’s 141-year-old Broad St. Missionary Church

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.For the Birmingham TimesA quiet dignity is noticed every time Elmore Quarles reads the history of her place of worship, Broad Street Missionary Baptist Church, located in what is now Birmingham’s Smithfield neighborhood. Quarles assumed the role of church historian decades ago, when the prior historian was unable to serve because of her health.
“After Mary White got sick and got to where she couldn’t read it, she asked me if I would take it,” said Q