Ward Chapel AME Church explained

Ward Chapel AME Church
Location:319 N. 9th St., Muskogee, Oklahoma
Coordinates:35.7544°N -95.3781°W
Built:1904
Added:September 25, 1984
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:84003338

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.

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 NaNfeet church, built of brick laid in running bond, painted yellow.

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."[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=84003338}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ward Chapel AME Church ]. National Park Service. September 28, 2019. With