(RNS) — The introduction to online worship services at Abyssinian Baptist Church still briefly features the church’s previous ...
A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian Baptist Church on Worth Street in 1808 after refusing to accept segregated services in downtown’s First ...
The late Rev. Charles A. Trentham, a popular yet controversial minister at Knoxville’s First Baptist Church who became a pastor to President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C., in 1977, is mentioned in ...
Founded in 1808, Abyssinian Baptist Church is one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Housed in a landmark Gothic- and Tudor-style building in Harlem, Abyssinian ...