Emanuel AME Church

Emanuel A.M.E. Church is rooted in the African Methodist Society that was formed soon after the founding in 1772 of the Methodist Society in Portsmouth. The African Society met independently until Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831, worshiped with white Methodists ...

Emanuel AME Church

110 Calhoun Street

Constructed 1891

The oldest African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church in the south, Emanuel A.M.E. Church was organized as

Hampstead Free African church in 1818 by Rev. Morris Brown. After seceding from the Methodist Church,

Charlestonians organized three ...