Peoples Baptist Church

Established 1915   The oldest Black church congregation in New England, Peoples Baptist Church of Boston was founded as the First African Baptist Church in 1805 on Beacon Hill. The following year, the congregation built the African Meeting House as a space for both worship and abolitionist activism. By the end of the 19th century, most of the church’s congregants had moved from Beacon Hill to the South End. In 1898, the church sold the African Meeting House and moved here to the corner of Camden and Tremont Street. The church contains one of the original bells cast by the Revere Company in 1797, and is inscribed with Paul Revere’s name. In 1915, the congregation merged with Calvary Baptist Church and Morningstar Baptist Church under the new name Peoples Baptist Church.