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Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church

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Built
  
1895

NRHP Reference #
  
79000988

Area
  
800 m²

Architect
  
Rev. Warren Thomas

Opened
  
1895

Added to NRHP
  
9 January 1979

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church

Location
  
Moscow Avenue Hickman, Kentucky

Address
  
1207 7th St, Hickman, KY 42050, USA

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church is a historic church on Moscow Avenue in Hickman, Kentucky. It is part of the Christian Methodist Episcopal denomination formed in the South after the American Civil War.

On December 16, 1870 in Jackson, Tennessee, 41 freedmen who were former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South organized what was then called the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. (The Methodist Church had split before the war into North and South denominations.) This denomination was composed primarily of African Americans who wanted to have their own churches free of white supervision. In 1954 they changed the name of the denomination to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

This church was built in 1895 and added to the National Register in 1979.

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