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Listing of churches in
DC, some old,
some new (from 1994 World Cup Host City site)
AFRICAN
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
Metropolitan
A.M.E. Church
1518 M. St.
NW
(202) 331-1426
(Founded 1854 by breakaway congregations from two
earlier churches: Israel Bethel A.M.E. and Union
Bethel A.M.E. Now Nat. Hq. of A.M.E. Church)
John Wesley A.M.E. Church
1615 14th
St., NW
(Church built in 1850's)
BAPTIST
First Colored Baptist
Church (link to
article about the church history)
(site
at 19th and Eye, NW)
In 1833, this congregation took over this site, which
originally had been occupied by DC's First Baptist congregation. 1871
through 1975, the Nineteenth St. Baptist Church was based here until it was
demolished to make way for office development.
Shiloh Baptist
1500 9th St., NW
(Congregation
established in 1862 in various temporary facilities by congregation which
migrated en masse from Fredericksburg, VA. Permanent building built
1924.)
CATHOLIC
St.
Augustine's
1419 V St., NW
(202)
265-1470
(Oldest black Catholic congregation in Washington. Founded in 1858,
first permanent building was built 1867. In 1961, congregation merged with St.
Paul's, which had been on the V St., site since 1898.)
EPISCOPALIAN
St. Luke's
1514 15th St., NW
(Built in
1879, is one of the oldest remaining church buildings built for a black
congregation.)
St.
Mary's
728-730 23rd St., NW
(built 1886 for black Episcopalians
from two other congregations, Church of the Epiphany and St.John's Lafayette
Sq., Architect, James Renwick)
METHODIST
Ebenezer United
Methodist
4th and D St.,
SE
(oldest black church on Capitol Hill. Built 1838, rebuilt
1897)
Mount Zion United
Methodist Church
1334 29th St., NW
Georgetown
(Established in
1816. Oldest known church in DC started by and for black people, was part of
Underground Railway)
Mount Zion Cemetery
Q St., NW,
Between 27th
St. and the Q St. Bridge
Georgetown
Leased by Mt. Zion Church in
1879
from Dumbarton (Congress St.) Methodist
PRESBYTERIAN:
Fifteenth
Street Presbyterian Church
1705 Fifteenth St., NW
(Historic early African American
congregation, established in 1841. The noted abolitionist, Grimke, was the
pastor here. Moved to present building in 1979, a former Christian Science
Church built in 1918.)