Bethal AME Church

The Greenwich Preservation Trust, working alongside with the Historical Society of Greenwich has helped the Bethal AME Church, the first African American Church in Greenwich, to achieve designation on the National Register of Historic Places. The official announcement came on October 22, 2010. The church, organized in 1882, is located at 42 Lake Ave.

Notable Afriican American Leaders are honored In the stained glass windows.

Interior Pictures of the Church

The following entry about  the Bethal AME Church is from Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut by Spenser P. Mead, published in 1911:

Little Bethal African Methodist Episcopal Church

Borough of Greenwich

Organized June 15, 2024

The Little Bethal African Methodist Church of Greenwich was organized on the fifteenth day of June 1882 by the Rev. T. McCants Stuart [Stewart], Pastor of the Bethal African Methodist Church of New York at a meeting held in the hall over the Greenwich Savings Bank the located on Putnam Avenue. The church services were held later on in the hall on the top floor of the LaForge Building on the easterly side of Greenwich Avenue until the present church edifice on Lafayette was dedicated which occurred on the twenty ninth day of June 1884. It is a voluntary association of individuals formed for public worship.

Plaque presented to Bethal AME Church

Our Chairman Jo Comboy presented a National Register of Historic Places to Bethal AME Church... Read more