Two historic Black Cleveland churches receive preservation grants from national organization
is giving out $4 million in grants to 35 historic Black churches this year, and three are in Northeast Ohio., the program will “help historic Black churches and congregations reimagine, redesign, and redeploy historic preservation to address the institutions’ needs and the cultural assets and stories they steward.”
Among the recipients: Cory United Methodist Church and Euclid Avenue Christian Church in Cleveland and Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Akron. “No pillar of the African American community has been more central to its history, identity, and social justice vision than the ‘Black Church,'” said Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor, Historian, Filmmaker, and Advisor of African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund in a statement.was originally housed on Scovill Avenue and East 35th Street. In 1947 the growing congregation moved to its current location, a former synagogue.
The Preserving Black Churches grant, “will support [East Mountain Zion Baptist Church's] capital campaign feasibility study and rehabilitation plan, further strengthening its multi-year, multi-million-dollar preservation project.”has served as Akron's oldest Black congregation since 1864. A community pillar, the church dedicated its current church building nearly a century ago in 1928.
Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion will, “use the grant to replace the roof and repair the chimney. Now this long-time nucleus for the Black community's religious, cultural, and civic activity will be preserved to its original beauty.”, an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation supporting community development, education and religion.
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