Name/Title
- Trinity Methodist Church, Ebenezer AMEEntry/Object ID
2020.25.268Description
- Trinity Methodist Church, Ebenezer AME
This building no longer exists
https://www.stjosephmemorylane.com/3rdstreet/3rdstreet.htmlPhotograph Details
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PhotoSubject Person or Organization
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCHSubject Place
Location
3rd StreetCity
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriContext
The following information was taken directly from the St. Joseph Memory Lane website:
"All of the following information was graciously submitted by David Lewis:
This building was the second on this site built by the German Methodist Church of St. Joseph. Prior to about 1925, the Methodist Church set up separate conferences (like synods) for German-speaking congregations. Anti-German sentiment during WW I and assimilation by the next generation caused many of these congregations to drop the German language in worship.
Eventually the Methodist Church folded them into their larger English-speaking congregations. The local church adopted the name Trinity Methodist Church at that time.
About 1952, they merged with Hundley Methodist at 22nd & Calhoun to form Ashland Methodist. The 1953 City Directory lists this as the Ashland Avenue Methodist Church.
The building was sold to Ebenezer AME who occupied it until it was sold and then demolished somewhere around 1973.
An old Hinners & Albertsen tracker pipe organ, which was acquired in 1896, was left behind. The organ had sat silent for 20+ years. The organ was offered to Ashland Avenue Methodist Church. The church purchased, restored and installed the organ in their present church. Several descendants of the original German families still attend the church. "Collection
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Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Ebenezer A.M.E Church, Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, German Methodist Church of St. Joseph
