It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles.
Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a Pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers.
For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building.
It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles