NEW YORK — While many churches across America have ditched dressing up for service in favor of a come as you are policy, at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, the congregation’s new ...

A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian Baptist Church on Worth Street in 1808 after refusing to accept segregated services in downtown’s First ...

The Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has filed a motion through its attorneys to dismiss a lawsuit filed in October by four current and/or former church members who are seeking to overturn the ...

New York’s Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, walked jauntily away from the Sunday service. Then he spotted a CBS mobile television ...

Founded in 1808, Abyssinian Baptist Church is one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Housed in a landmark Gothic- and Tudor-style building in Harlem, Abyssinian ...