The Black Church is a street art installation in City Centre in Braşov. This place has 103 reviews and an average rating of 4.6 of 5. This is a great rating.
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So few reviews for such an impressive church. Anyone going to Brasov must visit this place, it's at only few steps from the main square of the city.
Beautiful architecture, few seconds away from piata sfatului, very hard to miss
The term Black Church refers to the body of Christian congregations and denominations in the United States that minister predominantly to African-Americans, as well as their collective traditions and members. The term can also refer to individual congregations.
While most black congregations belong to predominantly African-American Protestant denominations, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) or Church of God in Christ (COGIC), many others are in predominantly white Protestant denominations such as the United Church of Christ (which developed from the Congregational Church of New England).[1] There are also many Black Catholic churches.[2]
Most of the first black congregations and churches formed before 1800 were founded by freed blacks – for example, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Springfield Baptist Church (Augusta, Georgia); Petersburg, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia.[3] The oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky, and third oldest in the United States, was founded about 1790 by the slave Peter Durrett.[4] The oldest black Catholic church, St Augustine in New Orleans, was founded by free blacks in 1841.
After slavery was abolished, segregationist attitudes towards blacks and whites worshiping together were not as predominant in the North as compared to the South. Many white Protestant ministers moved to the South after the Civil War to establish churches where blacks and whites worshiped together. In some parts of the country, such as New Orleans, black and white Catholics had worshiped together for almost 150 years before the Civil War—albeit without full equality and primarily under French and Spanish rule.
Attacks by the Ku Klux Klan or whites opposed to such efforts thwarted those attempts and even prevented blacks from worshiping in the same churches as whites. In communities where blacks and whites worshiped together in the South shortly after the Civil War, the persecution of blacks was less severe. Yet, freed blacks most often established congregations and church facilities separate from their white neighbors, who were often their former masters. In the Catholic Church, the rising tide of segregation eventually resulted in segregated parishes across the South, even in places where segregation had not previously been the norm.
These new, black churches created communities and worship practices that were culturally distinct from other churches, including forms of Christian worship that derived from African spiritual traditions. These churches also became the centers of communities, serving as school sites, taking up social welfare functions such as providing for the indigent, and going on to establish orphanages and prison ministries. As a result, black churches were particularly important during the Civil Rights Movement.
Beautiful, historical place in the heart of Brașov!
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