French Baptists celebrate

French Baptist history goes back to 1820, giving the French the oldest unbroken history of any Baptist community on the European continent. There were Baptist churches in France before Baptist churches started in Texas!

A French Baptist Historical Society (the SHDBF, or Société d'Histoire et de Documentation Baptistes de France) was founded in 2000 at a meeting in the historic chapel in the rue de Lille in the centre of Paris, with as "founder members" the three groups of French Baptists (Federation, Association, and then independent Eglise du Tabernacle, which has since joined the Association).