Mount Gilboa Chapel
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Mount Gilboa Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church located in Oella, Maryland, United States. It is a small stone church measuring 28 feet by 42 feet, built about 1859 by free African Americans. The front façade is ashlar masonry, but the sides and rear are of rubble.[1]
Background
The building is the replacement of an earlier log chapel of unknown origin. It is possible that neighbor Benjamin Banneker attended services in such a log building.[1] An obelisk that the Maryland Bicentennial Commission and the State Commission on Afro American History and Culture erected in 1977 to commemorate Banneker stands in the church's yard near his unmarked grave.[2] His grave is among less than two dozen marked graves in the graveyard adjacent to the chapel.
The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[3][4]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ (1) "Benjamin Banneker" marker in website of hmdb.org: The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
(2) Coordinates of Benjamim Banneker obelisk: Script error: No such module "Coordinates". - ↑ Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
- ↑ Template:MHT url, at Maryland Historical Trust
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Navbox".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with reference errors
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- African Methodist Episcopal churches in Maryland
- Churches in Baltimore County, Maryland
- Churches completed in 1859
- 19th-century churches in the United States
- African-American history of Baltimore County, Maryland
- Oella, Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore County, Maryland
- 1859 establishments in Maryland
- Benjamin Banneker
- African-American cemeteries in Maryland