Dedicated in 1806, this is the oldest African-American church. Home of the First African Baptist Church, and later a
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African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, a National Trust Historic Site The African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School is located in what was once the heart of Boston's 19th century African American community. Learn More A Role in the Abolitionist Movement The meeting house was host to numerous prominent abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison
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This brick meeting house was built in 1806 for the congregation of the "African Baptist Church", which had been founded a year earlier. Built by black labor, it was the first black church in Boston and is also the oldest existing African-American church building in the United States. William Lloyd Garrison founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society here in 1832, and many leading abolitionists spoke
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