• National Historic Landmark, located in area formerly known as New Guinea, home to Nantucket's African American community.
  • The African Meeting House, also known variously as First African Baptist Church, First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church, was built in...
  • The magnificence of African Meeting House, America's oldest black church built in 1806 and still standing.The city has had its share of racial disturbances.
  • The Baptist congregation moved to Boston’s South End in 1898 and the Meeting House became the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
  • Four months later, he and 20 of his followers established the African Baptist Church. By December of the following year, they had built the African Meeting House.
  • End the tour at the African Meeting house, a historic site in Boston that is often overlooked by tours.
  • The oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States, the African Meeting House's origins lie in the fact that churches were segregated in Boston.
  • The African Meeting House served many different functions for Boston’s Black community throughout the 19th century.
  • In 1806 free Blacks in Boston, led by Cato Gardner, raised $7,700 to enable Black craftsmen and laborers to build the African Meeting House.
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