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The African-American Catholic Congregation and its Imani Temples are an Independent Catholic church founded by Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Jr., an Afrocentrist and former Catholic priest, in Washington, D.C. Stallings left the Catholic Church in 1989 and was excommunicated in 1990. [1]
Stallings was ordained a priest in 1974. His first assignment was as an associate pastor at Our Lady of Peace Church, Washington, D.C. In 1976, at age 28 and two years after ordination, he was named a pastor of St. Teresa of Avila parish in Washington. [2] He was the pastor of this church for 14 years.
The Our Mother of Africa Chapel is a shrine housed in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. It was built in the 1990s after a fundraising appeal sponsored by the National Black Catholic Congress, and was dedicated in 1997. [2]
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is located west of Washington's Logan Circle, on the west side of 15th Street at its junction with Church Street. It is a masonry structure built mainly out of Chesapeake bluestone with an ashlar finish and laid in random courses. A steeply pitched slate roof covers it.
The congregation was founded in 1838, as Union Bethel (Metropolitan) A. M. E. Church. In 1880, John W. Stevenson was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne to be pastor of the church for the purpose of building a new church, which would become Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The cornerstone was laid in September, 1881.
The Israel Bethel church moved to First and B Street SW in 1872. [3] [a] The church had been "under the fostering care" of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years, and had decided to leave that denomination over a dispute about who owned and should have the deed for the church building. Israel Church held onto the deed and left the ...
United Church of Christ churches in Washington, D.C. (3 P) Pages in category "Churches in Washington, D.C." The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The original building, designed by Charles Bulfinch, located at what is now the intersection of 6th and D Streets Northwest. Pennsylvania Avenue runs in the foreground.. All Souls Church, Unitarian is a Unitarian Universalist church located at 1500 Harvard Street NW at the intersection of 16th Street, Washington, D.C., roughly where the Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Adams Morgan ...