According to the earliest church records, the Baptists Praying Society was established when In the year 1817, Jesse D. Green, a layman, was active in gathering together the few scattered Baptists in Augusta, and, after holding one or more preliminary meetings, the brethren and sisters, to the number of eighteen, had drawn up and adopted a covenant, to which they affixed their names.

T. Brantly was chosen for the pastoral office, and he undertook erecting a brick house at 802 Greene St., at a cost of $20,000.

[2] The Southern Baptist Convention was formed at a meeting May 1845 in this church, marking the separation between Northern and Southern Baptists before the American Civil War over issues of slavery and governance.

[5][6] They sold their former church building to the Southern Baptist Non-Profit Historical Society.

In August 2020, Joe Edge a local Augusta real estate developer purchased the building with plans to save the structure and redevelop it.