Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenwich

Name: Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Address: Greenwich, United States

#5 among attractions in Greenwich

Church, Gothic Revival architecture

Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church building and congregation at 44 Lake Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1882, the congregation was Greenwich's first African-American congregation of any denomination, and remains a center of African-American society in the town. Its current church, built in 1921 on the site of its first church, is a good example of Late Gothic Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. ()

Coordinates: 41°1'58"N, 73°37'51"W

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Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Putnam Cottage, Greenwich Library, Greenwich Town Hall.

1.1 miSE
Museum, Science museum, Art museum
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich
29 min walk • The Bruce Museum is a museum in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut with both art and natural history exhibition space. The Bruce's main building sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower can be easily seen by drivers passing by on Interstate 95.
0.7 miNE
Museum, Historical place, History museum
Putnam Cottage, Greenwich
17 min walk • Putnam Cottage was also known as Knapp Tavern during the American Revolution. It is located at 243 East Putnam Avenue, on the former route of the Boston Post Road, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
~1360 ftS
Library
Greenwich Library, Greenwich
7 min walk • Greenwich Library is the main library in the Greenwich library system of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The Greenwich Library system consists of the Main Library and its Byram Shubert and Cos Cob branches.
0.5 miS
City hall
Greenwich Town Hall, Greenwich
14 min walk • The Greenwich Senior Center, formerly Greenwich Town Hall, is a historic municipal building at 299 Greenwich Avenue in the business district of Greenwich, Connecticut. USA.
1.2 miSW
Church
St. Roch Church, Greenwich
31 min walk • St. Roch is a Roman Catholic church in Greenwich, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport. Although the Parish of St. Roch was formally established in 1938, it had been preceded by a mission church and it for this mission that the church was built.
~1370 ftSE
Church
St. Mary's Church, Greenwich
7 min walk • St. Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport.
~1220 ftE
Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenwich
6 min walk • The Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church and parsonage at 61 East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut. Built in 1868-69 for a Methodist congregation established in 1805, the church is a fine local example of Carpenter Gothic architecture, and the parsonage, built in 1872, is a good example of Italianate architecture.
0.5 miE
Observatories and planetariums
Bowman Observatory, Greenwich
13 min walk • Bowman Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Greenwich, Connecticut Board of Education. Members of The Astronomical Society of Greenwich staff the observatory under the auspices of the Board's Continuing Education Department.
0.4 miNW
Gothic Revival architecture
Rosemary Hall, Greenwich
12 min walk • Rosemary Hall was an independent girls school at Ridgeway and Zaccheus Mead Lane in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was later merged into Choate Rosemary Hall and moved to the Choate boys' school campus in Wallingford, Connecticut.
~1170 ftNE
Neighbourhood
Fourth Ward Historic District, Greenwich
6 min walk • The Fourth Ward Historic District encompasses an early urban residential subdivision of Greenwich, Connecticut. Extending north from United States Route 1 along Sherwood Place, Church Street, and adjacent streets, it is one of two subdivisions created before the arrival of the railroad in Greenwich in 1848.
0.7 miNE
Neighbourhood
Putnam Hill Historic District, Greenwich
17 min walk • The Putnam Hill Historic District encompasses a former town center of Greenwich, Connecticut. Located on United States Route 1 between Millbank Avenue and Old Church Road, the district includes the churches of two historic congregations, a former tavern, and a collection of fine mid-Victorian residential architecture.

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Which popular attractions are close to Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church?

Nearby attractions include Fourth Ward Historic District, Greenwich (6 min walk), Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenwich (6 min walk), Greenwich Library, Greenwich (7 min walk), St. Mary's Church, Greenwich (7 min walk).

How to get to Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church by public transport?

The nearest stations to Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church:

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Greenwich (22 min walk)