St. Thomas' African Episcopal Church

Philadelphia County · dedicated 1984 · SW corner, S 5th St. & St. James Ct., Philadelphia

Organized in 1792 as an outgrowth of the Free African Society, formed 1787. The original church edifice stood here. Under the ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones (1746-1818), a former slave, this became the nation's first Black Episcopal church.

under a mile from where Heinrich Schmaus lived in the 1740s

what this marker records spans 1746 to 1818, overlapping Heinrich Schmaus's years here

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