Mother Bethel AME Church Records

CTL-E-0791 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

Records of Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia (founded 1794 by Richard Allen; founding congregation of the first independent Black denomination in America): outgrew storage in 2013; moved to Presbyterian Historical Society; digitization completed 2021.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-042; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

The Christian Post, 2021-02-11

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