Built 1913 Opened 1913 Phone +1 931-433-0675 Added to NRHP 3 October 2003 | NRHP Reference # 03001003 Area 4,000 m² Architectural style Italianate architecture | |
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Location 521 W. College St., Fayetteville, Tennessee, U.S. MPS Rural African-American Churches in Tennessee MPS Address 521 College St W, Fayetteville, TN 37334, USA Similar Saint Paul African Methodist, Cumberla Presbyter Church, First Baptist Church, First United Methodist Church, First Church of the Nazar | ||
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Fayetteville, Tennessee, United States, located at 521 W. College Street.
The congregation was established as the "African Church" in 1824, probably by white slave-owners wanting to provide a Christian church for their household servants. The original church location was on Rock and Stigall Hill (now Reservoir Hill), about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) northeast of the current church building.
The church moved to its present location on West College Street in 1867. The church's current brick building was completed in 1913. Oral histories indicate that the women of the church delivered brick to the site by carrying bricks in their aprons. When built, the church facade featured three large circular windows; after a fire damaged the building, the circular windows were replaced by rectangular double-hung windows.
The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 following research by Middle Tennessee State University.