Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.

The congregation was established in either 1870 or 1871, which makes this the oldest historically African American church in the city.

Many African Americans came to Cedar Rapids after the coal industry in Southern Iowa began to collapse.

It is one of the few surviving links to Cedar Rapid's early African American community as this neighborhood has been nearly obliterated by the development of Mercy Medical Center.

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