Bethel Bible College
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Bethel Bible College or Bethel Gospel School was a Bible college founded in 1900 by Charles Parham in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It was located at what is now the Southeast corner of 17th and Gage Blvd. The school is credited with starting the Pentecostal movement, particularly its earliest form—Holiness Pentecostalism—due to a series of fasting days that ended in what was interpreted as speaking in tongues on January 1, 1901. Although the school would close later in 1901 due to a fire that destroyed the building, after less than two years of operation, the movement itself grew substantially to tens of millions of people around the world.
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