Ebenezer Baptist Church - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)

Providing spiritual and moral leadership, Ebenezer Baptist Church was a popular social gathering place on the Hill. It was the first church edifice in western Pennsylvania owned by black Baptists, who built their first church in 1882, after being organized in 1875. The first pastor was Rev. R. Henry Marshall. By 1896, there were 600 members. In 1914 the church was moved from its first site at Colwell and Miller Streets to its present location, and the current church was built in 1930-31. This church stands as an early example of the organizational cohesiveness of the black community in Allegheny County particularly the Hill. This is a new structure. The former church, a Neo-Gothic structure (built 1930-31), burned in a fire in 2004.