The Tabernacle
| Baptist Tabernacle House of Blues |
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Tabernacle front entrance in January 2009
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| Address | 152 Luckie Street Atlanta, Georgia United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′31″N 84°23′29″W / 33.75874°N 84.39139°W |
| Owner | Live Nation |
| Type | Indoor concert hall |
| Capacity | 2,600 |
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| Opened | 1911 |
| Years active | 1911-1991, 1996-present |
| Architect | Reuben Harrison Hunt |
| Website | |
| www.tabernacleatl.com | |
Tabernacle, also nicknamed The Tabby, is a mid-size concert hall in the U.S. city of Atlanta. The Tabernacle has been a venue for notable acts, including Guns N' Roses, The Black Crowes, Adele, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Robbie Williams, Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, Prince & The New Power Generation, The 1975 and Atlanta's own Mastodon, among others. Along with music concerts, the venue also holds many comedy tours annually including Bob Saget, Lisa Lampanelli, Cheech & Chong and Stephen Lynch. The Tabernacle is managed by concert promoter Live Nation and has a seating capacity of 2,600 people.
The building is over a century old and has a varied history.
Dr. Len G. Broughton was recruited from Virginia to become pastor of Third Baptist Church in Atlanta in March 1898. Within a year he had founded a new Baptist Tabernacle church on the southwest corner of Luckie and Harris streets (now the middle of Centennial Olympic Park). Rev. Broughton was closely associated with the church in its early years, leading the local press to refer to it as "Broughton's Tabernacle," though this was never the official name of the church or any of its buildings. The new church was quite successful and had to be expanded several times to accommodate growth.
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