Friday, May 20, 2011

Abyssinian Baptist Church, Manhattan

Abyssinian Baptist Church, Manhattan. Image 1
The church traces its roots to 1808, when visiting free Ethiopian seamen and allied African American parishioners left the First Baptist Church in the City of New York in protest over being restricted to racially segregated seating. They named their new congregation the Abyssinian Baptist Church after the historic name of Ethiopia. Through the years, Abyssinian Baptist Church moved north on the island of Manhattan, as Harlem became a center of African-American population. read more...

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