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Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834 – May 8, 1915) was an American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War , he worked to establish new A.M.E. congregations among African Americans in Georgia. [ 1 ]
New stained glass windows. Turner Chapel served as a community centre for the Afro American immigrants as well as a place of worship. [2] Other notable members who maintained the Turner Chapel include Jeremiah Adams, a groundskeeper and the son of Samuel, and his wife, Eliza Butler, the daughter of co-founder Reverend Butler. [2]
Turner Memorial AME Church's building during 1951-2003 [1] (now Sixth & I Historic Synagogue), in 2006. The congregation, one of America's historically black churches, was founded in 1915 by members of the Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Southwest Washington who wished to organize an African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the neighborhood where they lived.
Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, who served as pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles for 27 years, has died. He was 94. Murray died of natural causes Friday ...
It became the first AME church in the District of Columbia, with the name Israel Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. [5] It was the second largest African-American church in the District of Columbia and supported enlisting black men into the Union Army when Reverend Henry McNeal Turner was pastor. [6]
After three years leading his home church, Mt. Pisgah AME in Seabrook, he was assigned to Queen Chapel in October 1994. He said they “dated for 6 1/2 years” as he and the congregation got to ...
Frank M. Reid III (born 1951), Pastor of the Bethel AME Church in Baltimore [61] from 1988 to 2016. Reid started The Bethel Outreach of Love Broadcast; Bethel was the first AME Church to have an international TV broadcast. Was selected as the 26th most influential person in Baltimore by local regional publication, Baltimore Magazine
Oct. 25—Percy "Happy" Watkins, who co-founded Spokane's annual march commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and longtime voice in the drive for civil rights in Spokane, died Friday. He ...