William Seymour's mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles pours out speaking in tongues and interracial worship; global Pentecostalism traces its modern beginning here.
Tagged: Revival Christian Pentecostal and Charismatic
The Event
- Date
- 1906 (exact)
- Also called
- Azusa Street Mission revival
- Era
- Contemporary; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Pentecostal and Charismatic
- Key figures
- William J. Seymour
How the Tradition Tells It
The revival's interracial beginning under Black leadership did not hold: within a decade the Pentecostal movement in the United States divided largely along racial lines into separate fellowships.
Connections
- Wesley's Aldersgate Experience; drew_on_holiness_roots
Primary Sources
- The Apostolic Faith (Azusa Street paper, 1906-1908)
- Frank Bartleman, Azusa Street (1925)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0043; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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