First African New Church
This file appears in: First African New Church (Church of the New Jerusalem): This neighborhood church was built in 1896 for the city’s first African American congregation of the New Church.
This file appears in: First African New Church (Church of the New Jerusalem): This neighborhood church was built in 1896 for the city’s first African American congregation of the New Church.
First African New Church (Church of the New Jerusalem): This neighborhood church was built in 1896 for the city’s first African American congregation of the New Church.
By 1846, a Swedenborgian, or New Church, congregation was fully established in Washington, and by 1858, the congregation had built a church just north of the Capitol. After that structure burned in…