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AccessibilityAbyssinian Tot Lot
W. 139 St. bet. Adam C Powell Blvd. and Lenox Ave.
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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
The Abyssinian Baptist Church was the first African American Baptist congregation in the state of New York and the fourth in the nation. It was founded in 1808 by members of the First Baptist Church who took issue with the racially segregated seating arrangements maintained by the congregation. The dissenting parishioners, under the leadership of a small party of seamen from Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia), began holding services of their own. In tribute to the seamen, the congregation called itself the Abyssinian Baptist Church.
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