History:
In 1880 Baptist friends of Mr. Stevens in the North contributed financially and soon a meeting house with an adjacent parsonage was provided. The original church building consisted of one room with three windows on each side, and seated about 100 people. By 1893 the membership had outgrown the original building so a new house of worship was erected which forms the main part of the present edifice on U.S. 301 in Citra. The new house of worship contained a baptistery, an unheard of innovation as that time.

The architecture of the church is a nostalgic reminder of a by-gone era of the Old South. After many years, Sunday School classrooms were added. Then in 1956 the dining and fellowship hall was built.

The First Baptist Church of Citra, one of the 12 original churches forming the Marion Baptist Association, has had a long list of pastors