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The African Meeting House is open to the public. This site is part of Boston African American National Historic Site. Adjacent to the African Meeting House, is the Education and Technology Center. The Trust for Public Land assisted in the acquisition of the building when the museum needed space to expand. [8]
The Black congregation of the African Meeting House moved to Roxbury; the meeting house became a Jewish synagogue, representing new immigrants. By 1930 the South End and Roxbury were home to most of Boston's 21,000 African Americans.
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]
African Meeting House: African Meeting House. May 30, 1974 : 8 Smith Ct Beacon Hill Also known as ... Boston African American National Historic Site: October 10, 1980:
Abiel Smith School, founded in 1835, is a school located at 46 Joy Street in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, adjacent to the African Meeting House.It is named for Abiel Smith, a white philanthropist who left money (an estimated $4,000) in his will to the city of Boston for the education of black children.
Courage and Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in Boston. Indiana University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-253-20793-7. Nell, William Cooper (2002). William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings from 1832-1874. Black Classic Press. ISBN 9781574780192. Quarles, Benjamin (1969).
Title page of History of the Twelfth Baptist Church by George Washington Williams, 1874. The Twelfth Baptist Church was established in 1840 when a group of 36 dissenters broke with the First Independent Baptist Church, which met in what is now known as the African Meeting House.
Today, the historic homes on Smith Court, along with the African Meeting House and the Abiel Smith School, are the best preserved physical locales available for understanding the history of African Americans in Boston. [2] 4 Smith Court, a four-story brick building, is typical of residential structures built in Boston between 1885 and 1915.