Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church
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The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church and congregation at 419 South 6th Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The congregation, founded in 1794, is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the nation. Its present church, completed in 1890, is the oldest church property in the United States to be continuously owned by African Americans. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972.
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South 6th Street, Philadelphia Center City
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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
South 6th Street 419
19147 Philadelphia, Center City
Pennsylvania, United States
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