While many churches across America have ditched dressing up for service in favor of a come as you are policy, at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, the congregation’s new leader, the Rev ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — More than two dozen members of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, dressed as if for a Sunday service, filled a lower Manhattan courtroom Thursday morning (July 17) to attend ...

Abyssinian has ministered through the Harlem Renaissance Era, through the American Civil Rights Era, and, more recently, was the first church to collaborate with the government on COVID-19 efforts.

A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Abyssinian Baptist Church by a onetime candidate to be the historic Harlem church’s senior pastor, the sole female ...

A “freeze the rent” rally featuring two lefty mayoral candidates was scheduled to take place Thursday night at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. That was, until plans changed the day before, ...

For the church’s 218th Easter, we captured the essence of traditional Southern Baptist style, its deep East African roots, and the evolving interpretations of generational dressing.

Powell, pastor from 1937 to 1972, served in Congress for 26 years. Over the years, Abyssinian has been the spiritual home of many influential New Yorkers. ___ ...

After not being named a finalist, Marshall Turman sued the church and the search committee for gender discrimination in December 2023. No woman has ever been senior pastor of Abyssinian, which was ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York, NY) has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1995 Speech. Most appearances with Calvin O. Butts III (2).

The music world gathered at New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church to mourn the loss of genre legend Roberta Flack. The memorial service, held in Harlem at one of the country's oldest Black ...

The memorial was at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York. It was open to the public. RELATED | DC remembers Roberta Flack: From singing at Mr. Henry's to Grammy-winning fame ...