Abyssinian Baptist Church

Abyssinian Baptist Church can be found at W 138th St 132. The following is offered: Entertainers. The entry is present with us since Sep 10, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In New York there are 316 other Entertainers. An overview can be found here.

If you are planning on visiting the church with a group of 10 or more, contact the ministry manager at (212) 862-7474 x212 to reserve space.

In 1808, a few African-Americans, armed with their faith in Jesus and strengthened by mercies already seen, left the worship service of the First Baptist Church of New York City and withdrew forever their membership. These African-Americans, accompanied by a group of Ethiopian merchants, were unwilling to accept racially segregated seating in God's house and determined that they would organize...

The most famous of Harlem’s more than 400 houses of worship is this Baptist church, founded downtown in 1808 by African-American and Ethiopian merchants. It was moved uptown to Harlem back in the 1920s by Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., who built it into the largest Protestant congregation—white or black—in America. His son, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (for whom the adjoining boulevard was named),...

A gathering of African-Americans started this fellowship in 1808; the church is a noted spiritual presence in the Harlem community.