Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church

CTL-E-1395 · Church · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Apostolic congregation at 4100 S. King Drive, Chicago (Grand Boulevard/Bronzeville), led by Rev. Dr. Leon D. Finney Jr. Occupies a landmark building with a deep civic history: its predecessor, the interracial/nonsectarian Metropolitan Community Church (1920), hosted Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Robert S. Abbott, Gwendolyn Brooks, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:metropolitan-apostolic; source research type(s): congregation. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

City of Chicago Landmark Designation Report, 'Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church Building' (via zlibrary mirror of report PDF), accessed 2026-09-28. (primary source)
City of Chicago Landmark Designation Report, 'Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church Building.' (primary source)
City of Chicago Landmark Designation Report; churchesinchicago.com directory listing. (primary source)

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