Bethel AME
This file appears in: African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
A fixture in Jeffersonville for over 140 years, this structure has withstood two cataclysmic floods. According to the church website, the church can boast the first African American congregation in Clark County, dating to 1842. Congregants met in homes at first before building a log church and later wooden churches. The wooden structures burned prior to the construction of the current building. In the church’s early days, a circuit rider led worship.
This file appears in: African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Before you, stands one of Clark County’s historic African American churches, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal. In the 19th Century, numerous African American churches were established to serve the spiritual needs of people fleeing the South in…