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James Alfred Smith Senior (born May 19, 1931) is the Pastor Emeritus [1] of the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California. [2]Ebony Magazine chose Smith to be one of the "Most Influential Black Americans" and was one of the magazine's Top 15 Greatest Black Preachers of 1993.
Allen Temple AME Church, formerly Broadway Street Temple. The congregants met at people’s houses until their first synagogue, Broadway Street Temple, was built at Sixth and Broadway streets in 1836.
The AME Church was founded by Richard Allen (1760–1831) in 1816 when he called together five African American congregations of the previously established Methodist Episcopal Church with the hope of escaping the discrimination that was commonplace in society, including some churches. [7]
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Black Methodism in the United States is the Methodist tradition within the Black Church, largely consisting of congregations in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion or AMEZ), Christian Methodist Episcopal denominations, as well as those African American congregations in other Methodist denominations, such as the Free Methodist Church.
In 1862, the church helped launch the second AME church in Cincinnati, the Brown Chapel AME Church. [ 7 ] Because of growth and vandalism, in 1870 the congregation purchased the structure previously housing the Rockdale Temple synagogue for $40,000, (~$850,574 in 2023) reflecting its position as one of the early black churches with a ...
In 1852 another synagogue was built on the same site. The 1852 building was sold in 1870 to the Allen Temple AME Church. On 27 August 1869, the congregation dedicated a magnificent building at Eighth and Mound Streets. [3] In 1906 the congregation moved to the Neoclassical Rockdale Temple, designed by Cincinnati architect Rudolph Tietig (1877 ...