Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church, Historic African Methodist Episcopal church building in Galveston, Texas.
Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church is a Gothic Revival church building at 2013 Broadway in Galveston, Texas, erected in 1886. Its design uses pointed arches, decorative tracery and vertical lines typical of 19th-century ecclesiastical architecture. The building survived the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
Originally established in 1848 by enslaved African Americans, the current structure was built in 1886 after the original building was destroyed in the devastating 1885 Galveston fire.
Reedy Chapel was one of the Galveston sites where Union General Gordon Granger publicly read General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865, declaring emancipation in Texas. African Americans in Galveston marked the date annually, and that local observance grew into the Juneteenth holiday. The congregation, organized as Texas's first A.M.E. church in 1866, still holds Juneteenth events.
Located at 2013 Broadway Avenue in Galveston, the church is accessible via Highway 87 and continues to host religious services and community events for visitors and congregants.
This church holds the distinction of being Texas's first African Methodist Episcopal church and survived the catastrophic 1900 Galveston hurricane that devastated the island.
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