Thursday, April 17, 2014

Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, NY


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Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, NY

Posted: 17 Apr 2014 01:00 AM PDT

Credit: Dennis InAmsterdam, Creative Commons License Built in 1808, the Abyssinian Baptist Church is New York’s oldest African American church with one of the largest black congregations in the U.S. with more than 10,000 members. It was founded in 1808 by visiting free Ethiopian seamen and allied African-American parishioners who left the First Baptist Church […]

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