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Location
61 Wentworth, Charleston
City
Charleston
County
Charleston
Date of Founding
1842
Date of Photograph
1-1-2014
Description
Centenary United Methodist Church was built in 1842 and was originally the home of the Second Baptist Church. In 1866, the African-American members of Trinity Methodist Church left that church and purchased this building from the Baptists for $20,000 in gold. The Centenary congregation included many members of Charleston’s wealthiest African Americans, including the Weston, Wilson, Johnson, Mills, Brown, Sasportas, Hampton, McKinlay, Ransier, Holloway, Ryan, and Wigfall families. In the 20th century, Septima Poinsett Clark, prominent African-American educator and leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church. She later directed citizenship schools for Dr. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The church is included in the Charleston Historic District. Source: UMC, NRHP
Source
National Register of Historic Places
Rights
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