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They left St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church because of discrimination. Although Allen and Jones were both accepted as preachers, they were limited to black congregations. In addition, the blacks were made to sit in a separate gallery built in the church when their portion of the congregation increased.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church) is a Christian denomination founded by Bishop Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816. Recent estimates of membership figures in the United States range from 2.5 million to more than 3 million.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist Black church.

The AME Symbol "God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, Man our Brother." The anvil represents the blacksmith shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the founder, Richard Allen, with a few followers, established the first African Methodist Episcopal Church, the cross represents the Church.

African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church), Black Methodist denomination originating in the United States, formally organized in 1816.

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH The church's roots are of the family of Methodist churches.

BACKGROUND. The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. The AME Church originated as a protest against the racial discrmination experienced by people of African descent at white Methodist congregations, such as the St.

The church speaks of Richard Allen, William Paul Quinn, Daniel A. Payne, and Henry M. Turner as the “Four Horsemen” instrumental in the establishment of the church.