Columbia, SC

Bethel AME Church
DESCRIPTION: Founded in 1826, the congregation erected the present sanctuary 55 years later; this three-story structure was designed by John Anderson Lankford, one of the first registered African-American architects in the United States and built in 1921

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 8a & 11a

ADDRESS: 219 Woodrow Street  MAP

PHONE: 803-779-0138

WEBSITE: http://www.bethelamechurch.net

Bishop’s Memorial AME Church
DESCRIPTION: Built in 1907, this Colonial Revival church was originally named the Woodrow Memorial Presbyterian Church, a memorial to Dr. James Woodrow, an uncle of Woodrow Wilson and a professor at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbia; in 1929 it became Salters Memorial A.M.E. Church and then changed to its current name in 1943

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10a

ADDRESS: 2221 Washington Street  MAP

PHONE: 803-254-6686

WEBSITE: none

First Calvary Baptist Church
DESCRIPTION: The congregation first organized in 1865, then in the basement of the Mann-Simons Cottage at the corner of Marion and Richland Streets

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:30a

ADDRESS: 1401 Pine Street  MAP

PHONE: 803-256-3670
WEBSITE: none

Ladson Presbyterian Church
DESCRIPTION: Founded in 1838, its the oldest African American church in the city, Ladson began as a mission of the First Presbyterian Church

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 11a

ADDRESS: 1720 Sumter Street  MAP

PHONE: 803-765-9192
WEBSITE: none

United House of Prayer for All People
DESCRIPTION: One of many Pentecostal churches around the country founded by Bishop Charles “Sweet Daddy” Grace, a native of the Cape Verde Islands, in the 1920’s; today the church is known nationally for its long tradition of feeding and clothing the poor

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 11a

ADDRESS: 2426 Read Street  MAP

PHONE: 803-254-1246

WEBSITE: none

Zion Baptist Church
DESCRIPTION: Founded in the basement of a house on the corner of Hampton and Gadsden Streets (now the site of the Vietnam Memorial Park) in 1861; the oldest Black Baptist church in Columbia

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 11a

ADDRESS: 801 Washington Street  MAP

PHONE: 803-779-2809

WEBSITE: none