Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 71 First AME Church

Posted: July 3rd, 2008

71 First AME Church

The First African Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1872. In 1903 construction was completed on a Gothic-style structure based on a design by English architect Sir Christopher Wren. The building was destroyed by fire in 1976.
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