What was the first Methodist church for African Americans established in the northern United States?
Mother Bethel Church, founded in August 1794, was the first Methodist church in the North to be organized by African Americans. It was founded by Richard Allen, a former slave, at 6th and Lombard Street in Philadelphia. Source: Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History, 1997, p.482, Joseph Nathan Kane, 031.
