The church was founded in 1883 in downtown Atlanta and moved to near the Druid Hills neighborhood in 1910.

The current church building, designed by Francis Palmer Smith, was completed in 1940 and is located in the Virginia–Highland neighborhood.

[1] Originally located in downtown Atlanta,[2] by 1910 the church was renamed and moved to a location at the intersection of North Highland Avenue and Blue Ridge Avenue in northeast Atlanta.

[3] Smith, who at this time was the head of the architecture school at Georgia Tech, had designed several buildings in the nearby Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta.

[4] In 1939, Smith was once again commissioned by the church to design a new sanctuary for the congregation, which was completed the following year.