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CALLED TO NEW YORK CHURCH; Madison Avenue Baptist Congregation Invites the Rev. Dr. Tupper.
Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive ... The Rev. Dr. Kerr Boyce Tupper, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Seventeenth and Sansom Streets, and one of the best known ...
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A Brooklyn church hopes to build on its parking lot to help housing crisis
Not a week goes by at St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn without the congregation having to bid farewell to another member. Since the end of the pandemic, many young families and retirees ...
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The Abyssinian Baptist Church
A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian Baptist Church on Worth Street in 1808 after refusing to accept segregated services in downtown’s First ...
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New leader of New York’s iconic Abyssinian Baptist Church wants to keep ‘high culture’ alive
NEW YORK — While many churches across America have ditched dressing up for service in favor of a come as you are policy, at the historic Abyssinian Baptist ... as the church’s first female ...