Shiloh Church (Newport, Rhode Island)


Shiloh Church is an historic African American Baptist church and school building at 25 School Street in Newport, Rhode Island.
The building "...was erected in 1798, under the will of the late Nathaniel Kay, for educational purposes. Many of the leading citizens of Newport attended school in this house." The Shiloh Church was an African American Baptist congregation founded on May 10, 1864 by Edmund Kelly in a house at 73 Levin Street owned by Esther Brinley. William James Barnett was installed as the first pastor, followed shortly by Theodore Valentine. In 1868 the members of Shiloh Church availed themselves of the opportunity to purchase their present house of worship, on the corner of School and Mary streets, from the Trinity Church corporation, at a cost of $2,000." The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

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