Ward Chapel AME Church
Ward Chapel AME Church | |
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| Location | 319 N. 9th St., Muskogee, Oklahoma |
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| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1904 |
| MPS | Black Protestant Churches of Muskogee TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003338[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 25, 1984 |
The Ward Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church building at 319 N. 9th Street in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It was built in 1904, three years before Oklahoma achieved statehood. It was added to the National Register in 1984.[1]
It was deemed significant as "one of the oldest remaining social institutions in the black community of Muskogee"; it "is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church and the second oldest black Protestant church in Muskogee". It is a one-and-a-half-story 90 by 44 feet (27 m × 13 m) church, built of brick laid in running bond, painted yellow.[2]
The Ward Chapel congregation was founded in 1883. The 1904 church building "was built in 1904 to accommodate the growing congregation and to serve the spiritual and social needs of Muskogee's black community which numbered over 7,000 at the time of construction."[2]
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- Methodist churches in Oklahoma
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
- Churches completed in 1904
- Buildings and structures in Muskogee, Oklahoma
- National Register of Historic Places in Muskogee County, Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States Methodist church stubs
- Oklahoma building and structure stubs