File:Ceres Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.jpg
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The Ceres Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church sits just outside of Burkittsville just before you reach Gapland. Situated next to a vineyard, the site includes a church and a cemetery. Graves in the cemetery date from 1870-2010 and it is the final resting place for some prominent African-Americans from Frederick County.
The church and cemetery together are a great example of a post American Civil War African-American rural church. Ceres Bethel AME Church was an active congregation of free blacks in 1858 when it acquired the parcel of land where it is currently located today.
The congregation stayed together throughout the Civil War and by 1870 was both large and affluent enough to build and sustain a church building of this size.
Today this church stands as an example of rural church architecture and as a testament to the size and influence of the African-American community in the area in the late 1800's. The building has been vacant and vandalized since 1984.
(Information excerpted from http://endangeredmaryland.org/site.php?5)
You can read more about the church here:
http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/021408/frednew71332_32379.shtml
(Photo by Peter Wenner)
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