Quinn Chapel AME Church (St. Louis, Missouri)

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Carondelet
St. Louis, Missouri
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location =227 Bowen Street

St. Louis, Missouri
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built = 1869
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added = October 16, 1974
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refnum =74002277 [cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-07-27|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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governing_body = Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church

Quinn Chapel AME Church is an historic African Methodist Episcopal Church building located at 227 Bowen Street in the Carondelet section of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. Built in 1869 as the North Public Market, it was acquired by the church in 1880. [ [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM11PQ Waymark history of the church] ] On October 16, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [ [http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Quinn_Chapel_AME_Church Archiplanet listing for the church] ] [ [http://www.umsl.edu/~libweb/blackstudies/blcksite.htm Preservation Issuew listing for Quinn Chapel] ]

History

The Carondelet AME Church, which had been founded in 1845, bought the North Public Market in 1880 from the city of St. Louis and converted it for use as a church. The market, built in 1869 by the then city of Carondolet, had passed to the city of St. Louis in 1870 when it annexed Carondolet. In 1882 the church's name was changed to Quinn Chapel in memory of William Paul Quinn, the fourth bishop of the AME Church.. [ [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM11PQ Waymark history of the church] ] [ [http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/carondelet/churches6.htm History of churches in Carondelet] ]

Current use

Quinn Chapel is still an active AME Church. Its current pasator is the Rev. Beverly M. Stith. [ [http://www.ame-church.com/directory/results.php?ChurchID=05030224 AME Church Directory] ]

ee also

* List of Registered Historic Places in St. Louis County, Missouri

References

External links

* [http://www.umsl.edu/~libweb/blackstudies/blcksite.htm Preservation Issues listing for Quinn Chapel]
* [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM11PQ Waymark listing for Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church - St. Louis, Missouri]
* [http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Quinn_Chapel_AME_Church Archiplanet listing for Quinn Chapel AME Church]
* [http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/carondelet/churches6.htm History of churches in Carondelet]