The Rev. Dr. Nelson Price, a religious leader and staple in the Cobb County community, has died at the age of 94, according to Mayes Ward Dobbins Funeral Home.

Price, who served as pastor of Marietta’s Roswell Street Baptist Church for more than three decades, died Saturday, the Marietta Daily Journal first reported .

In addition to increasing the number of members at Roswell Baptist under his tenure, the church also saw a campus expansion, the Christian Index reported . The campus included a 4,000-seat worshiping center — the second-largest sanctuary in the Southeast at the time of completion.

Over the years, he grew the congregation from hundreds of members to roughly 10,000, turning it into one of the first “megachurches” in America, the paper reported.

He was even invited to pr

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