Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church
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The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1793 by Richard Allen, an African-American, at Sixth and Addison Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Allen became the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.[1] The church was organized by African-American members of St. George's Methodist Church.
It was the first African-American church opened in the United States and opened for public worship July 17, 1794 and was dedicated July 29, 1794, by Bishop Francis Asbury. On October 12, 1794, Reverend Robert Blackwell announced from the pulpit that the congregation was received in full fellowship in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.
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