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 ...
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 ...
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 ...