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Allen Temple AME Church (Cincinnati, Ohio) Allen Temple A.M.E. Church (Greenville, South Carolina) This page was last edited on 12 August 2019, at 14:36 (UTC). Text ...
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.
Allen Temple A.M.E. Church is a historic church at 109 Green Avenue at the junction with S. Markley Street in Greenville, South Carolina. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was built in 1929 in a Classical Revival style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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 ...
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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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 ...
Wood's Chapel subsequently became Allen Temple AME. Clarke's Chapel's congregation was mixed and sought to also promote education which it accomplished by holding the first classes of Clark College and Gammon Theological Seminary in its basement. Clarke's Chapel was ultimately renamed the Lloyd Street Church.