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Wesley Union AME Zion Church was formally established on August 20, 1829, by some members of an existing black church. [1] The first church was a log building at Third and Mulberry streets. In 1830, there were 115 members of the church. David Stevens was ordained an elder at the Philadelphia conference of 1830.
The church sanctuary is located on the second floor and contains a large U-shaped balcony and is brightly lit by stained glass windows on all sides. "Big Wesley" has been a historical leader in the development of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church denomination and influential in civil rights and social reforms in the 1950s and 1960s. [3]
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or the AME Zion Church (AMEZ) is a historically African-American Christian denomination based in the United States. It was officially formed in 1821 in New York City, but operated for a number of years before then. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology. [1]
Price was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AME Zion Church). [1] [2] By 1865, he was the pastor of the Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. [10] In 1866, he was a minister in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and represented the Good Samaritan Council of Harrisburg at the annual conference. [11]
Lincoln Cemetery was founded in November 1877 by the Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church), [1] and is located at 201 South 30th Street in the Susquehanna Township area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [2] [3]
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Wesley Union AME Zion Church, corner of Tanner's Alley and South Street, Harrisburg, PA, circa 1910. By 1850, 900 free blacks, making up 12% of the city's population lived in Harrisburg. Residents of the ally were more likely to be the poorest residents. [3] Churches, restaurants, dance halls, and business were also in the Tanner's Alley. [1]
Harriet McClintock Marshall (August 14, 1840–July 25, 1925) was a conductor on the Underground Railroad [1] whose home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania served as a stop or safe house for the clandestine network, along with the Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AME Zion Church) and other homes in the city. She offered shelter ...