Greater Bethel AME Church is located at 32 West 123rd Street in Harlem. It is one of the oldest black churches in New York City.[citation needed] The Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in Lower Manhattan in 1819 and moved into the Harlem Library building in the early twentieth century.
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Edgar K. Bourne, architect of this limestone and brick building constructed from 1891–1892, was also a member of the library's board of trustees. The church moved into the structure on West 123rd Street when the Harlem Library was moved to 9-11 West 124th Street after being added to the New York Public Library system in 1901. Greater Bethel is within the Mount Morris Park Historic District and as such is a designated New York City Landmark.[1][2][3]
References
edit- ^ "MXB Virtual Tour". Archived from the original on February 7, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ "Mount Morris Park Historic District Designation Report" (PDF).
- ^ "Our History African Methodist Episcopal Church".