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The Abyssinian Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch located at 132 West 138th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Lenox Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA and American Baptist Churches USA. [1]
Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Adam Clayton Powell (May 5, 1865 [1] [2] – June 12, 1953) was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) [1] was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971.
Butts joined Abyssinian Baptist Church as a youth minister in 1972, and led the Harlem church as pastor for decades, becoming a trusted council of politicians and the public alike as its senior ...
Butts joined the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, traditionally New York City's largest and preeminent black church, [6] as a youth minister in 1972. For decades its senior pastor, he also delivered a weekly sermon by radio on a local station, 98.7 FM (KISS-FM).
Samuel DeWitt Proctor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 13, 1921. [1] Unusual for an African American born in this era, Proctor's grandparents on both sides had received education at the university level: his paternal grandmother had attended Hampton Institute, and both of his maternal grandparents had attended Norfolk Mission College,the forerunner of Booker T Washington High School in ...
Abyssinian Baptist Church; All Saints Church (Manhattan) ... Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church; Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (Harlem, New York) O.
Oberia D. Dempsey (1914 – October 2, 1982) was a Baptist pastor in Harlem, New York City, primarily known for his activism against drug trafficking and addiction.. Born in Roxton, Texas, to a Baptist minister, Dempsey briefly attended Wiley College before joining the Army and being sent to Europe in World War II.