About Bethany Baptist Church (Newark, New Jersey)
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Bethany Baptist Church was a historic church at 117 W. Market Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
The church traces its origins to 1870, when a group of African Americans established the church on Broad Street in Newark, in the building of the Peddie Memorial Baptist Church. Under the leadership of the Reverend Ebenezer Bird, who had come from Virginia to lead the congregation of about 26 members, the group was officially sanctioned as a church by the Council of Baptist Churches in June 1871. Thus, the church prides itself as being the "first Baptist congregation founded by people of African descent."
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88, University Heights, Hartford Street, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States of America, 07103
