Community of Royal/Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church

When slavery was abolished in 1865, the Royal community was founded by former slaves from the old Green Plantation located near the Withlacoochee River. Moving further inland to farm for themselves, the former slaves built log cabin homes and dug ...

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church

This AME church started as a small wooden structure in 1894 and has grown to encompass an entire corner. It is all that remains of a once thriving African American district.

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Kissimmee

This one-story Masonry Vernacular church was constructed in 1916. The name of Lawrence Silas, a prosperous black cattleman in Florida's range country, appears on the cornerstone. With his father's estate gone, Lawrence Silas rebuilt the family fortune and eventually owned ...

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church - Ocala

The only surviving brick 19th century religious structure in Ocala, the present Gothic Revival church stands behind the site of the original white frame building. Construction of the first brick church owned by a black congregation began in 1891 under ...

Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church

This one-story masonry vernacular style building with Neo-Gothic elements was built in 1940. The congregation was organized in 1920.

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - St. Petersburg

Built in 1922, the Bethel AME Church is Gothic Revival in style and located in the Jamestown neighborhood northwest of St. Petersburg's downtown core. It is the first and oldest predominantly African American church and denomination in the city, playing ...

Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church

Constructed in 1913, the historic Gothic Revival style building is located on the site of the original church built in 1896 for the Mount Olive AME parishioners.

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Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church - Dade City

Freedtown AME was organized in the late 1800s at Lake Buddy. This congregation moved into Dade City and became known as Mount Zion AME Church. A frame meeting house built in 1903 served as the parsonage. The present building, dedicated ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - Tampa

The St. Paul AME congregation dates back to 1870. The original church structure, a brick vernacular building with Gothic and Romanesque detailing, was erected in downtown Tampa between 1906 and 1917. With its large sanctuary, balcony and basement, this church ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - St. Augustine

This 1910 Gothic Revival style church served as an assembly point for blacks demonstrating against segregated beaches, lunch counters and other facilities in 1964. The kitchen fed hundreds of volunteers who came from other states. Baseball great Jackie Robinson addressed ...