Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium
The Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium, built in 1973, is the preaching center of the campus.
A tribute to the memory of Dr. Bob Jones Sr., the mammoth edifice is akin to an enclosed
Greek amphitheater. While it seats 7,000, this amphitorium allows an audience the
greatest possible proximity to the speaker. A ninety-rank Allen organ is located in this
hall, which also houses Bob Jones University’s recording studios and a 200-seat assembly
room.
Robert Reynolds Jones Sr. (1883-1968) was the eleventh child of Alex and Georgia Creel Jones. In a preaching ministry that spanned over seventy years, he held his first revival service at age thirteen, was a licensed Methodist preacher before the age of fifteen, and pastored several churches during his college years at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama. During the early decades of the twentieth century, he won thousands to Christ through his evangelistic campaigns nationwide. However, no aspect of his ministry has had a more profound and far-reaching effect than the college he founded in 1927. Since that time, Christian workers have graduated from Bob Jones University to carry the Gospel around the world, and thousands of laymen have been educated in business, science, and the arts.
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