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The First African Baptist Church had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [32] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827. It was the first African American church west of the Mississippi River. Although there were ...
The African Meeting House, also known variously as First African Baptist Church, First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church, was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States. A Baptist congregation led by Reverend Thomas Paul built the church. The church also established a ...
Second African Baptist Church is a church in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in the northwestern trust/civic block of Greene Square , at 123 Houston Street , the church was founded on December 26, 1802, [ 2 ] twenty-five years after the city's First African Baptist Church , as the First Colored Church. [ 3 ]
First African Baptist Church, located in Savannah, Georgia, claims to be derived from the first black Baptist congregation in North America.While it was not officially organized until 1788, it grew from members who founded a congregation in 1773.
Gillfield Baptist Church, largest Black congregation within the Portsmouth Association, preceding the north-south split and formation of Southern Baptist Convention in 1845 First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. The root of cooperative efforts amongst Black Baptists began in the Antebellum period.
The First African Baptist Church of Savannah is one of the oldest Black Baptist congregations in the United States. The First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia was founded in 1774. [12] Before the American Revolution about 494 Baptist congregations existed in the United States. [13]
It was the first African American Baptist congregation in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and the fifth African American congregation to be founded in Philadelphia (after the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas and Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, both in 1794; Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church, 1796; and First African Presbyterian Church, 1807).
Baptist Churches of the Central African Republic; Evangelical Baptist Church of the Central African Republic; Baptist Community of Congo; Baptist Community of the Congo River; Native Baptist Church of Cameroon; Cameroon Baptist Convention; Union of Baptist Churches of Cameroon