"Alexander Avenue, east side, north from East 140th Street. At the south east corner of East 141st Street is the Alexander Avenue Baptist Church, circa 1937."

The original Alexander Avenue Baptist Church was a wooden chapel built in 1876 in this same corner at 141st Street and Alexander Avenue. The congregation had been organized four years earlier in 1872. The chapel was torn down in 1900 in preparation for a new building.The current building was dedicated in 1902 and became the Tercera Iglesia Bautista (Third Spanish Baptist Church) in 1962.