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January 5, 2022

The congregation of the Greater Liberty Baptist Church dates to around 1882, when several members of the Main Street Baptist Church, an African American church founded in 1862, left to form their own church. The new congregation built a church on Corral Street, but as the church membership swelled, the church moved again and again. (read more)

Categories: Fayette County, Kentucky churches

Tags: #africanamericanchurch, #africanamericanhistory, #kentuckyarchitecture, #lexingtonky

July 4, 2021

In the years following the Civil War, churches served as the focal point of many African American communities. The church was not only a place for worship and prayer, but a foundation for forging a stronger community that included education and the preservation of cultural identity. Sometimes the church and the school occupied the same (read more)

Categories: African American History, Churches, Kentucky churches, Spencer County

Tags: #africanamericanchurch, #africanamericanhistory, #historicchurches, #kentuckyarchitecture, #taylorsvilleky

July 26, 2020

The African Methodist Episcopal Church (also known as the Colored Methodist Church, or CME) has deep roots in Winchester, Kentucky. Prior to the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, worship was celebrated in the basement of the local Methodist Church, but by 1866, the congregation purchased their first parcel for building. Allen Chapel CME Church was (read more)

Categories: Churches, Clark County, Kentucky churches

Tags: #africanamericanchurch, #africanamericanhistory, #kentuckyarchitecture, #winchesterky

Greater Liberty Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky

Minor Chapel AME Church, Taylorsville, Kentucky

Save Me! Allen Chapel CME Church, Winchester, Kentucky

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