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buy moncler jackets The Church is located at 833 Gardner C. Taylor Blvd. Brooklyn, New York moncler jackets cheap 11216. The street was formerly known as Marcy Avenue, named for Gardner cheap moncler jackets outlet Calvin Taylor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In March 1948, the congregation called him to be their pastor. Dr. Taylor led the church fully into the national struggle for civil rights in the United States. Dr. Taylor was influential in helping to found a new national fellowship, the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The Abolition church was organized under the pastorate of a white minister, Rev. Daniel Resse. Later the white members moved to another location. Berean Baptist Church was built in 1894 by the African American congregation. The building known as Old Berean has been altered but moncler coats for men still stands today and is used for multi purpose activities by the Berean congregation and community. The church is located at 1635 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11213 2416.

cheap moncler outlet First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Brooklyn. September 25, 2010 marked the moncler coats cheap 125th anniversary Discount Moncler Coats of the First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Brooklyn. In 1872, part of the congregation decided to leave Bridge Street AME Church and organize another church. The Fleet Street African moncler jackets men Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Brooklyn, New York began in 1885 with just fifteen people. There was a split and the larger part of the congregation moved to a new location leaving behind the Moncler Factory Outlet fifteen. The Fleet Street building was used until 1905 when the Church was incorporated under the religious corporation laws of New York State and officially became the First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Brooklyn, New York. Location of the church is 54 McDonough Street at Tompkins Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11216

moncler sale The Siloam Presbyterian Church The Siloam Presbyterian Church was founded in 1849. The church was a stop on the Underground moncler outlet usa Railroad. According to church moncler coats sale records, John Brown stopped at Siloam on his way to Harper’s Ferry. The Prince Street location where the church was established had to be wrecked in 1891. Eminent domain claimed the Prince Street property for the new Manhattan Bridge approach, so there was womens moncler jackets no rebuilding on the site. Siloam journeyed from Prince Street to Lafayette Avenue finally locating at Jefferson and Marcy Avenues in 1944. The building became vacant when Central Presbyterian merged with the Bedford Presbyterian Church. The cheap moncler building dates back to 1936. The address is 260 Jefferson Avenue (at the corner of Marcy and Jefferson Avenues) in Brooklyn.

cheap moncler ArchitectureIf one has an interest in church architectures, there are many more churches to see such as Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ. The church can be found at 506 MacDonough Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. The Nazarene Congregational Church is more than 136 years old and is one of the oldest congregations in Brooklyn, New York established in 1873.

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cheap moncler sale Several of the church buildings were occupied by other congregation making for a very interesting history. A charter member of the Eastern Baptist Association of Brooklyn and Long Island, which held its first meeting at the Antioch Baptist Church in 1922. Antioch Baptist Church is Official Moncler Outlet located at 826 828 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221 moncler coats outlet (Between Lewis and Stuyvesant). The church moncler outlet woodbury was visited by many notables in the 1980s including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and New York’s Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

moncler sale outlet This is just a sample of the rich history of Black churches in Brooklyn, NY. There are white and multiracial churches, moncler outlet kids as well as churches in moncler jackets on sale other parts of the city that were not mentioned.

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cheap moncler jackets Dashingclaire, This was an interesting and informative hub on the origins of some of the foundational African American Church history of Brooklyn. Thank You for sharing, Peace Blessings!dashingclaire 6 years ago from United States

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