African Meeting House (Boston, Massachusetts)
USA /
Massachusetts /
Somerville /
Boston, Massachusetts /
Smith Court, 8
World
/ USA
/ Massachusetts
/ Somerville
NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1800s construction, U.S. National Historic Landmark
The African Meeting House, also known variously as First African Baptist Church, First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church, was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States. It is located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to the African American Abiel Smith School. It is a National Historic Landmark.
www.nps.gov/boaf/historyculture/amh.htm
www.nps.gov/boaf/historyculture/amh.htm
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°21'35"N 71°3'55"W
- Boston Common 0.4 km
- Boston Public Garden 0.7 km
- Long Wharf 1.1 km
- Charlestown Navy Yard 2.1 km
- Former Site of Boston Naval Shipyard 2.3 km
- Frederick Douglass Square Historic District 3 km
- Fenway Park 3.1 km
- Cambridge Common 5.1 km
- Harvard Stadium 5.2 km
- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 8.1 km
- West End (historical) 0.4 km
- Beacon Hill 0.4 km
- Financial District 0.8 km
- The Big Dig I-93 Tunnel Section 0.9 km
- Charles River Esplanade Park 1.2 km
- East Cambridge 1.5 km
- NorthPoint 1.6 km
- Bunker Hill Community College 1.9 km
- Charlestown 2.2 km
- MIT (Neighbourhood) 2.4 km