St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Philadelphia)
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The St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the first black Episcopal Church in the United States. Led by Absalom Jones, one of the first African Americans to be ordained in any religion, the Church became one of the major features in Philadelphia's black cultural life.[1]
The Church became the first black church in the country to purchase a pipe organ, and then the first to hire a black woman as organist, Ann Appo.[2]
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[edit] Reference
- Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 0393038432.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Absalom Jones Biography
- ^ Southern, pg. 603
