Façade of Former Church.

ID: 5170 ~ Source: Zachary Burt. ~ Date: May 2022.

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 The DC Historic Sites team

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…