Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park preserves the Sweet Auburn neighborhood sites central to the civil rights leader's life, including his 1929 birth home on Auburn Avenue, the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was baptized and later co-pastored, and his tomb at The King Center. Congress authorized the site as a National Historic Site on October 10, 1980 (Public Law 96-428) to protect and interpret the places where King was born, lived, worshipped, and is buried. It was redesignated a National Historical Park in 2018.
About this site
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park is a national park site in Fulton County, Georgia. It is one of 2 national park sites documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7553, -84.3719. The nearest cataloged historic site is Historic Fire Station No. 6 (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King Grave, and Harper House.
This record is drawn from the National Park Service. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park preserves the Sweet Auburn neighborhood sites central to the civil rights leader's life, including his 1929 birth home on Auburn Avenue, the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was baptized and later co-pastored, and his tomb at The King Center. Congress authorized the site as a National Historic Site on October 10, 1980 (Public Law 96-428) to protect and interpret the places where King was born, lived, worshipped, and is buried. It was redesignated a National Historical Park in 2018.
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