Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.)

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University for Cromwell family papers, 1849-1955(Metropolitan A.M.E. Church; Washington, D.C.)

found: LC database, May 10, 1996(MLC hdg.: Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.))

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University for Its Records, 1825-1926(hdg.: Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.); founded as Union Bethel A.M.E. Church; name changed in 1881)

found: Its WWW, Aug. 2, 2011(Metropolitan was founded in 1838, in the District of Columbia. It is the oldest A.M.E. Church in Washington, DC, the nation's capital. The church represents the 1870s merger of two A.M.E. congregations, Israel Bethel (1821) [no publs. in LC database] and Union Bethel (1838), a stop on the Underground Railroad. The name "Metropolitan" was officially designated and recognized by the general A.M.E. Church in 1872)