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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.
In 1937, Powell succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. [23] Powell Jr remained pastor of the church until 1972. In 1942 he founded People's Voice , a newspaper designed for "a progressive African American audience, and it educated and enlightened readers on everything from local gatherings and events to U.S. civil ...
Abyssinian Baptist Church; All Nations Baptist Church; ATLAH World Missionary Church; B. Bethany Baptist Church (New York City) C. Calvary Baptist Church (Manhattan)
In 1805, he became the first pastor for the First African Baptist Church, currently known as the African Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] [3] He later helped found the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. An abolitionist, he was a leader in the black community and was an active missionary in Haiti. [4]
an American academic administrator and a senior pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which historically was the largest black church in New York City. He established the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a $500 million engine in housing and commercial development in Harlem, and was president of the State University of New York College at ...
Today’s Abyssinian, with its large cupped ears and lithe, athletic physique, bears more than a passing resemblance to the African Wild Cat (Felis Libyca), and if you watch it climb and jump, you ...
The father of John Baptist was an Ethiopian deacon while his mother was Egyptian from Manfalut but of Abyssinian descent. During the persecution by Sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri they escaped to Nicosia, Cyprus, at the time governed by the Republic of Venice, and they joined the little local Ethiopian community. John Baptist was born there on about ...