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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage

19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United StatesAfrican-American historic placesBuildings and structures in Plymouth, MassachusettsChurches completed in 1870Churches in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Plymouth MA
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Plymouth MA

The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is an historic church and parsonage at 6 Sever Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The congregation, founded in 1866, is one of a small number of African Methodist Episcopal (AME) congregations in eastern Massachusetts, and is an enduring component of the small African-American community in Plymouth. Its church, built about 1840 as a commercial building and consecrated in 1870, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage
Allerton Street, Plymouth

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Allerton Street 15;17
02360 Plymouth
Massachusetts, United States
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