Old St. Teresa Church is located in downtown Albany, Georgia, on Residence Avenue.

[2] Construction on the church began in 1859, on land that was given by Colonel Nelson Tift, the founder of Albany.

The bricks that make up the building were handmade by enslaved workers on a plantation near Newton, Georgia.

Due to the Civil War, construction of the church was halted before the interior was completed.

After the war, the building was completed and dedicated under the patronage of St. Teresa of Ávila on November 19, 1882, by William Hickley Gross, who was the Bishop of Savannah at the time.