Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church
The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic church and congregation which is located at 419 South 6th Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The congregation, founded in 1794, is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the nation.
Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church
Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church
Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church Historical Marker
National Historic Landmark Plaque
Absalom Jones was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War.
1810 portrait of Absalom Jones by Raphaelle Peale
Absalom Jones Cenotaph in Eden Cemetery