by BrencWillie | Jun 11, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
First Baptist Church in St. Louis, founded as First African Baptist Church, is the oldest continuously operating black church in Missouri. The precursor to the church was founded by John Peck and James Welch, two white Baptist missionaries sent west in 1817 by the...
by BrencWillie | May 9, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
St. Philips Moravian Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in North Carolina. St. Philips is also the only historically black Moravian church in the United States. The Moravians were a Christian sect established by immigrants from the Moravia region...
by Schott-BreslerKayla | Apr 29, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Pilgrim Baptist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is the oldest African American church in the state of Minnesota. A group of escaped slaves began worshiping together in 1863, and under the leadership of fellow escaped slave Robert Thomas Hickman, the church officially...
by CobbinsQuinNitaF | Apr 23, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church of Natchez, Mississippi, traces its origins as far back as 1837 in a shared legacy with First Baptist Church and later Wall Street Baptist Church, two predominantly white congregations in Natchez in 1850. It is, however, recognized...
by JoeMonica | Apr 17, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
(Photo Courtesy of Tricia Simpson) The Trinity African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in Utah. Trinity AME was organized in 1890 by Rev. T. Saunders when Salt Lake City was the capital of Utah Territory. The early...
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