by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
Originally founded in 1870 as Payne Institute, AME leadership relocated the school to Columbia nearly a decade later. It was renamed Allen University in honor of Bishop Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The campus features five...
by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
Allen Temple AME Church was organized as a mission church during Reconstruction. Cuban-born Juan Benito Molina, then Greenville’s only Black architect, designed this early 20th century Classical Revival structure to serve as the congregation’s new home in...
