Churches

Black church history

The church was among the first crop of buildings built in New England towns. And many from the 17th century are still standing. Boston Black church services is held in large, historic buildings, storefronts sized churches at churches without walls. The largest Black church in Boston named Jubliee got its start in the 80's branded as a "church without walls. It was a mobile as a laptop. I fondly remember services held at Strand Theatre when the kids were growing up.


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Blacks and their churches came into America together. Philadelphia's AME church system was founded by an Obama-like charismatic leader in Richard Allen. African Americans became the most religious group of people in America says Pew Research who has studied this in detail. The City of Boston was put on the map by church people who came over from Amsterdam. Now Boston offers Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Holiness, nondenominational, Catholic, Christian, Episcopal, unaffiliated, Muslim, Protestant, and other churches. Most people you ask will tell you they believe in a God.


I am my mom's only son. Here's my three sisters and their kids. They go to church a lot.

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