African American Churches Churches have long occupied a central position within the Indianapolis African-American community. As the first institution that the Black community… Read More »African American Churches
Frank Alexander Frank Alexander was born on June 21, 1943 and grew up in Louisiana before his family moved to Fort Worth,… Read More »Frank Alexander
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church Allen Chapel, originally known as the Little Mission, is an African Methodist Episcopalian Church in Indianapolis. It was founded in 1865… Read More »Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church
Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center Established in 1914, the Jewish Community Center (JCC) was originally part of the and housed in the Federation’s Communal Building… Read More »Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center
Herman Bamberger Herman Bamberger came to Indianapolis in his late teens, and he went on to make significant contributions to the city’s… Read More »Herman Bamberger
Baptists About 50 million Baptists reside in the United States, distributed among several national bodies or conventions and a host of… Read More »Baptists
Henry Ward Beecher Beecher was born on June 24, 1813, in Litchfield, Connecticut, son of the famous Presbyterian minister and revivalist Lyman Beecher.… Read More »Henry Ward Beecher
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church In 1836, Augustus Turner, a local barber, organized a small group of African American Methodists into a congregation eventually known… Read More »Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church
George Joseph Biskup Born on August 23, 1911, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of Czech ancestry, Biskup was ordained in Rome on March 19,… Read More »George Joseph Biskup
Andrew J. Brown Born on November 20, 1921, in Duncan, Mississippi, Andrew J. Brown attended the historically Black Bishop College in Marshall, Texas,… Read More »Andrew J. Brown
