Nancy

50 Rue Stanislas

Église Évangélique Baptiste de Nancy (not affiliated with ETG Federation but friendly) - "tolerant". Congregation est. 1860, current building since 1958.

In 1860, a first evangelical assembly, resulting from the movement founded by Samuel Frolich, was established in Nancy.

After the defeat of 1870 against Prussia, Nancy experienced a significant boom due to the arrival of many Alsatians and Mosellans. Among them were artists (notably those who contributed to the rise of the Nancy school), but also industrialists. One of them, Émile Diebold (1844-1926), originally from Strasbourg, arrived from Besançon. He founded a metal construction factory in Nancy with his brother-in-law Chrétien Michel from Zurich. It was located on Chemin de la Meurthe, which later became Rue Mac Mahon. Several families joined them from 1891 to celebrate a service. The service was first in German, in the Diebold house adjoining the company, then in a factory office at 125 Rue Mac Mahon.

From 1901, a room in the factory was specially dedicated to worship, and its name became the Nazarene Community. In 1908, Eugène Herbster joined the community. During the Great War, scattered families gathered in Auxerre. From 1920, worship took place at 105 rue Mac Mahon: the room could accommodate 70 people. Throughout this period, worship was led by the Diebold brothers: Albert, Émile, Étienne, Paul, and Pierre. Many people, sometimes passing through, joined them: Messrs. Auchlin, Bonijoly, Dubarry, Geistlich, Buhler, Klein, Michel, Mayor, Guedj, Adoul, and Itty.

In the 1950s, the hall on Rue Mac Mahon was too far from the center of Nancy and too small, so a new hall was built at 50 Rue Stanislas, under the leadership of the evangelist Lucien Mayor. This new place of worship was inaugurated on November 16, 1958. The church was then called the Evangelical Nazarene Community. In the 1980s, it took the name of the Evangelical Baptist Church.

In 1995, the church joined the FEF (French Evangelical Federation), then the AEEBLF (Evangelical Association of French-Speaking Baptist Churches) in 2000.