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| Landmark #1013 | Sacramento County | Visited: March 21, 2015 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque on a parking garage! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: This is the site of the first church building associated with an African-American religious congregation on the Pacific Coast. The church was the Methodist Church of Colored People of Sacramento City, formally organized in 1850. In 1851 the congregation was admitted into the African Methodist Episcopal Church, becoming the first African Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast. First known as Bethel, the name was later changed to St. Andrews. The original 1850 wooden church building was the site of the first statewide convention of the California Colored Citizens which met November 20-22, 1855.
OTHER TIDBITS: Richard Allen and Absalom Jones started the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in 1787 after the existing Methodist Church wouldn’t allow African-American folks to pray! When the movement reached Sacramento, it took center stage in the fight for equal rights in the years leading up to the Civil War! The church has since been demolished and a new one built a few blocks over! |
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: 715 Seventh St Sacramento, CA 95814 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~384mi (618km) — 6.4hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |