- Saint Phillips Monumental A.M.E.
Church State Historical Marker
- Located on south side of Park Ave., about 15 yards
east of Jefferson St., Savannah
- 32°03.932, 081°06.019
SAINT PHILLIPS MONUMENTAL
A.M.E. CHURCH
The first African Methodist Church in Georgia
was organized by the Rev. A. L. Stanford on June 16, 1865, at
Savannah, Georgia and was given the name Saint Phillip African
Methodist Episcopal Church. Two months and fifteen days later,
the Sunday School had its beginning.
Many great preachers have pastored this
historic church. One was Bishop Henry M. Turner, a member of
the state legislature during Reconstruction and a leader of the
Back-to-Africa movement in Georgia, who pastored this church
from 1870 to 1874. A storm demolished the church building in
September 1896 and the Odd Fellow's Hall was secured for worship
until the church could be rebuilt. The General Conference meeting
in Waycross in 1897 renamed the church St. Phillips Monumental
A.M.E. Church.
Memorial tablets in the church carry the
names and dates of service of all the bishops in Georgia and
all pastors serving this congregation since the church's beginning.
On May 7, 1961, the Church moved from Hall
Street to its present location at Jefferson Street and Park Avenue.
025-91 GEORGIA HISTORIC
MARKER 1978
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