Our church began with house to house prayer meetings in 1865.  After meeting from house to house for several months, the group went into its first church at Fourteenth and Market Street.  It moved from this location to Cass Avenue where it became a part of the A.M.E. Zion Church.  Reverend Jeremiah M. Washington was appointed the pastor.

A lot was purchased and a church building was erected at 2625 Morgan Street, now Delmar Boulevard.  This lot was purchased after the church could not retain the lot on Lucas Avenue.  Lucas Avenue was a neighborhood of white residents who did not want a Negro church as a neighbor.  They paid the trustees five hundred dollars more than was paid for the land to relinquish it.