| Queen of Angels Church | |
| Location: | Belmont Avenue at Morton Street, Newark, New Jersey |
| Coordinates: | 40.7336°N -74.1892°W |
| Built: | 1854 |
| Architect: | Gsantner, Otto |
| Architecture: | Gothic |
| Added: | October 26, 1972 |
| Refnum: | 72000783 |
| Designated Other1 Name: | New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
| Designated Other1 Abbr: | NJRHP |
| Designated Other1 Link: | New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
| Designated Other1 Number: | [1] |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
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Queen of Angels Church (formerly known as St. Peter's Church) was a historic Black Catholic church on Belmont Avenue (now Irvine Turner Blvd) at Morton Street in Newark, New Jersey. It was the first Catholic parish for African Americans in the Archdiocese of Newark.[2]
Queen of Angels was built between 1854 and 1861[3] and was Newark's first African-American Catholic parish, becoming such in 1926. Its original 1930 building was destroyed in 1958, and the parish relocated, taking over a space at a church once known as St. Peter's.[4]
During the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. held meetings at the church for the Poor People's Campaign and the church also helped organized a march for racial harmony after his assassination.[4]
The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, administered by the Society of African Missions beginning in 1979, and was later closed in 2012.
The church was slated for demolition in 2014 and demolished in 2016.[5]