[1] It has served African Americans including in the theater industry.
The building, designed by Joseph Ireland in a Romanesque architectural style and completed in 1892, served two other congregations before this one.
[2] Marian Anderson and composer Duke Ellington attended the church and organist Sylvia Olden Lee was a congregant.
[1] It is at 308-310 139th Street in the Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District.
A proposal to redevelop the property would demolish the church and incorporate a new one into a building with housing units.