U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property
Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Architect
John Henry Devereux
Part of
Charleston Historic District (ID66000964[1])
NRHP reference No.
100003056
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
October 25, 2018
Designated NHLDCP
October 15, 1966 (1966-10-15)
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, colloquially Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 1817. It is the oldest AME church in the Southern United States; founded the previous year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, AME was the first independent black denomination in the nation. Mother Emanuel has one of the oldest black congregations south of Baltimore[2] (black Baptist churches were founded in South Carolina and Georgia before the American Revolutionary War).
^"Old and Historic Charleston (Extend)". National Park Service. Department of the Interior. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
^Weisman, Jonathan (June 18, 2015). "Killings Add a Painful Chapter to Storied History of Charleston Church". The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
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