Mother Bethel AME Church

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by Richard Allen in 1794 and became the mother church of the AME denomination, one of the first independent Black denominations in the United States. The congregation purchased the property on 6th Street and the site has been a continuous center for African American religious, social, and civil rights activity in Philadelphia. The church complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is significant to Black religious history.