Braddock Street Methodist Church

"To Serve the Present Age" - Charles Wesley

From Court House to Church

Thirty-two charter members met July 24, 1858, in the Frederick County Court House and were organized as a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Virginia Conference.

The first church ...

The Tenth Street United Methodist Church

Services conducted in 1896-98 by the Rev. C. Charnquist in homes of Taylor’s early settlers led to the founding (1900) of the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church, North. Buying the chapel of a disbanded group, the congregation increased, moving their church ...

Pine Street Presbyterian Church

After having split from the Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg in 1858, the newly formed congregation, which built this church, first met in the Chambers of the Pennsylvania State Senate. Completed in 1860, the limestone-constructed Pine Street Presbyterian Church was designed ...

Sharp Street Memorial Church

Named in honor of its original location, Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church descends from the first black congregation in Baltimore. In 1797, blacks gatehred at 112-116 Sharp Street, where the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Slavery had opened ...

Alfred Street Baptist Church

Alfred Street Baptist Church is home to the oldest

African American congregation in Alexandria,

dating to the early 19th century. It has served as a

prominent religious, educational, and cultural

institution. In 1818, the congregation, then known

as the Colored Baptist Society, began worship

services here ...

Main Street Christian Church

Built on this site in 1842. The 16-day Campbell-Rice Debate on Christian baptism, etc., was held here Nov. 1843, Hon. Henry Clay Presiding.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard on East Main Street. ...

John Street Church

A United Methodist Historic Shrine

The oldest continuous Methodist congregation in America, founded by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck in 1766, has served on this site since 1768. The present building, erected in 1841 and restored in 1965, is the ...

Church Street

Had you stood at this location in the early 1800s, you would have had to lift your skirt off the dirt lane to step up onto the plank sidewalk or guard your hat from the danger of low wooden ...

Bank Street Baptist Church

The Bank Street Baptist Church was built on this site in 1802 as a Presbyterian church. In 1840 it was purchased by a group of free blacks to serve them as a Baptist church. Because it had one of the ...

Church Street Historic District

This block of Church Street extending south from Milwaukee Avenue was platted as Wauwatosa’s first residential street in 1853. The Congregational Church built that year was the earliest religious structure in the community then known as Harts Mills.

In 1989 ...