419 6th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 16, 1972. NRIS 72001166.
1 contributing building.
The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church and congregation which is located 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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997374