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Emanuel AME Church

Emanuel AME Church

Historic Charleston & Resort Islands

Historic Charleston & Resort Islands

This brick Gothic Revival-style church with its tall steeple replaced an earlier 1872 church badly damaged by the 1886 earthquake. Built in 1891, it retains its original altar, communion rail, pews, and light fixtures. The sanctuary is one of only a few unaltered religious interiors in Charleston that date from the Victorian period. Today Emanuel is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the South and houses the oldest black congregation south of Baltimore, MD.

The history of this congregation reflects the development of religious institutions for African Americans in Charleston. Its roots stem from a religious group of free blacks and slaves organized in 1791. In 1816, black members of Charleston's Methodist Episcopal Church withdrew over disputed burial ground, and under the leadership of Morris Brown, formed a separate congregation. The church's 1,400 members soon after established themselves an African Methodist Episcopal church, a denomination formally established in that same year in Philadelphia, Pa. Two years later, Brown and other ministers of the church were jailed for violating state and local laws which prohibited religious gatherings of slaves and free blacks independent of white supervision.

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Coastal & Islands

Charleston

Coastal & Islands

110 Calhoun ST,
Charleston, SC 29401 (843) 722-2561

Info & Amenities

Location

I-26E to Meeting St. exit S. to Calhoun St. and turn left. The church is in the first block on the left.

Admission

Free

Days and Hours of Operation

M-Th 9am-4pm; F 9am-3pm; Worship service Su 9:30am

Days and Holidays Closed

Holidays