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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 ...
A Baptist congregation led by Reverend Thomas Paul built the church. The church also established a school, at first holding classes in its basement. After serving most of the nineteenth century as a church, it then served as a synagogue until 1972 when it was purchased for the Museum of African American History.
First African Baptist Church, ... George Leile, a slave who in 1773 was the first African American licensed by the Baptists to preach in Georgia, ...
Overall, the National Baptist Convention continues to remain one of the largest historically and predominantly African American or Black Christian denominations in the United States; separated bodies, such as the theologically conservative-to-moderate National Baptist Convention of America, have stagnated in membership (2000's 3,500,000 members ...
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]
The American Baptist Church is the most racially diverse of the three major Baptist churches in America. Its members are 73% white, 10% black, and 11% Latino. [36] The Southern Baptist Convention falls in between the two other major Baptist churches in regards to racial diversity, with 85% of its members being white, 6% being black, and 3% ...
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 ]
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to teach people of color to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's ...