Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Community Cemetery

Originally known as the White Lily Cemetery, the Mount Olive Courtenay Community Cemetery was on the grounds adjacent to the Bethel AME Church, one of the first black churches on Merritt Island. Grave sites date from 1919.

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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 ...

Second Bethel Baptist Church

This frame vernacular style building was completed in 1888 and served as a school for the black community. The pastor, the Reverend Henry Shaw, was the first to minister to the local African American turpentine, sawmill and phosphate workers.

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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 ...

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Palatka

The residents of the community of Newtown organized the Bethel AME church in 1866. This Romanesque Revival style building was constructed by the congregation circa 1908-1912.

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National Historic Landmark- Bethel Baptist Church

The Bethel Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Guardhouse are associated with the first organized movement of the modern civil rights movement that attacked multiple aspects of segregation.

While earlier organized movements focused on bus segregation, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human ...

Bethel Baptist Institutional Church

This building has long served as the focal point of the religious and community life of Jacksonville's black citizens. The congregation was organized In July 1838 with six charter members, including two slaves belonging to Elias G. Jaudon.

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Bethel Missionary Baptist Church

The Rev. C. K. Steele, pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, was one of Tallahassee's most notable civil rights activists. Many meetings associated with the Tallahassee bus boycott were held in this church, which made it a target of Ku ...

Old Bethel Methodist Church

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This church, built in 1797 in the meeting-house form, was dedicated in 1798 and completed

in 1809. It is the oldest Methodist church standing in Charleston. Originally at the corner of Pitt and Calhoun

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Old Bethel Church

Built in 1790 as a meeting place for Methodists, this structure originally stood at third and Market Streets and

consisted of one large room with an end gallery (slave box). In 1828 it was moved to Church and Mulberry Streets