Rev. Zach Tomlinson, Pastor and Archives Director for the IPHC in Upstate South Carolina, provided me with this wonderful list of significant places in IPHC history.
Points of Pentecost
Significant locations of the Pentecostal movement.
- The First Church, Goldsboro, NC
- Established in 1898 and widely known as the first church to have the name Pentecostal Holiness attached to it.
- The Piedmont Wesleyan Methodist Church (now known as Kaleo Church)
- Benjamin Hardin Irwin first spread his message of his new movement in the south here in 1896 which kickstarted the movement to spread throughout the south. The Fire Baptized Holiness Church.
- The Octagon Tabernacle, Falcon, NC
- This is where the merger took place between two denominations, the Pentecostal Holiness and the Fire Baptized in 1911.
- Holmes Bible College, Greenville, SC
- This is the oldest continuing Pentecostal Bible school in the world. Started in 1898 by former Presbyterian minister and lawyer, Nickles John Holmes.
- The King House, Franklin Springs, GA
- The home of one of the most influential leaders of the Pentecostal movement, especially within the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.
- Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas, Greenville, SC
- The African American members of the Fire Baptized Holiness Church formed by B.H. Irwin, decided to withdraw and form their own organization in 1908, led by William Edward Fuller Sr.