Azusa Street Revival
Tongues-speaking movement origin
The Azusa Street Revival was a Pentecostal religious revival that began in 1906 at a mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles, California.
Led by African American preacher William J.
Seymour, it featured speaking in tongues, faith healing, and interracial worship—remarkable for its era.
The revival is widely considered the birthplace of modern Pentecostalism, spawning denominations and missionary movements that spread globally.
Services continued for roughly a decade, drawing visitors from around the world who carried its practices back to their home countries.
- PentecostalismSpirit-focused Christian denomination
- fireCombustion with flames
- speaking in tonguesEcstatic religious vocalization
- Los AngelesSouthern California metropolis
- prophecyForetelling of future events
prayer meetings · spiritual gifts · prayer · interracial · storefront · divine healing · glossolalia · tongues · ecstatic worship · Second Great Awakening · shouting · singing · weeping · clapping · Holy Spirit · outpouring · altar · trembling
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization
- Pentecostalismspeaking in tongues, glossolalia, tongues, Holy Spirit, holy spirit
- revivalismrevivals, revivalism, revivalist, revivalists, camp meeting
Azusa Street Revivalsecularization
Religion losing social significance
church closure · apostasy · dechristianization · church closures