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The Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church is an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sacramento, California, founded in 1850. It was the first African American church in California [2] and the first AME Church on the West Coast of the United States. [3] It was originally located at 715 Seventh Street, which is marked by a historical ...
From 1854 until 1856, Ward worked as a Sunday School teacher and pastor at Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sacramento. [9] In 1855 and later years, Ward was an active participant in the annual California State Convention of Colored Citizens, including hosting the event at his church in 1857. [2] [10] [9]
Daniel Blue (1796–1884), founder of the Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sacramento, California; the first AME church on the West Coast and the first black church in California. [ 56 ]
Statues in front of St. Andrews, sculpted by Julius Theodore Melchers. St. Andrew's parish, founded in 1885, [2] was one of the earliest religious institutions established in what is now the University–Cultural Center section of Detroit. [3] By January 1886, the parish had constructed a church at the corner of fourth and Putnam.
[5] [3] Thus, with the help of the local African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church, in May 1854, Elizabeth Thorn Scott opened, at her home, a small private school for African-American children on Second Street, between M and N Streets. [3]
The "little brown church" was built in an English Gothic style on the south end of the property. Some called it "The Good Shepherd Chapel," in hommage to the Church of the Good Shepherd, as St. Andrew's was known between 1913 and 1916. The cost for the new church was $20,000 ($270,000 in 2010). The first service was Easter Day 1923.
The cornerstone at the Historic Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2021. Ebenezer AME will celebrate its 150th Anniversary on Nov. 7th, 2021.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 2067 Fifth Avenue at 127th Street in the neighborhood of Harlem in Manhattan, New York City.Built in 1872, it was designed by noted New York City architect Henry M. Congdon (1834–1922) in the Gothic Revival style.