Saint Thomas' African Episcopal Church Burial Ground

Also known as Old African Episcopal Church of Saint Thomas Burial Ground

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Get directions Southeast Corner of South Randolph and Saint James Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 United States

Coordinates: 39.94676, -75.15033
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Organized in 1792 as an outgrowth of the Free African Society (founded in 1787), the original church, under the ministration of Reverend Absalom Jones, a former slave, became the nation's first Black Episcopal Church.

Remains from the church's now-defunct burial ground, including that of Reverend Jones, were removed first to the now-defunct Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia in 1887, and then to Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1903, when Lebanon Cemetery was condemned.

Today, the church, now located in the Overbrook section of the city, maintains a columbarium with the cremated remains of Reverend Jones and others.

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