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They founded Bethel Church (which means âGodâs Houseâ), with the purpose of allowing people to study the Bible for themselves and to experience the Power of God without being restricted by unnecessary religious formality. Over the past ninety years many thousands of people have attended the church.
The Huntington Methodist Church had erected a small house ofworship there in 1837-38 that had more recently been used by them for Sunday school classes.This building became the first church building for the Bethel A.M.E. congregation. Immediatelyadjacent to this property was St. Johnâs Episcopal Church and its cemetery. However, when theEpiscopal Church burned in 1905, it was relocated to its present site on Main Street, leaving onlythe Episcopal Cemetery on Park Avenue. In 1907 a parsonage was built alongside the BethelA.M.E. Church.