Sidney Park C.M.E. Church

Sidney Park C.M.E. Church is a South Carolina historical marker in Columbia, Richland County, dedicated 2011.

Richland County · dedicated 2011 · 1114 Blanding St., Columbia, Columbia

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Front: Sidney Park C.M.E. Church was founded in 1886 and has been at this site since 1889. It grew out of a dispute among members of Bethel A.M.E. Church, who left that congregation and applied to join the Colored Methodist Episcopal (now Christian Methodist Episcopal) Church. The congregation acquired this site in 1886 and built its first sanctuary, a frame building, in 1889. That church burned by 1892. Reverse: This Gothic Revival brick church, built in 1893, was constructed by members who provided materials and labor. In the 1930s many members joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the church later hosted many meetings during the Civil Rights Movement. Sidney Park was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Historic Columbia Foundation, the City of Columbia, and the S.C. Department of Transportation

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On the National Register nearby

Sidney Park Colored Methodist Episcopal Church190 ft
Building at 1644 Main Street250 ft
Building at 1722-1724 Main Street290 ft

Places within about 300 feet of this marker that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A nearby listing is not always the marker's own subject.