Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, now known as Douglas Memorial Community Church, is a historic

Methodist Episcopal church The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself nationally. In 1939, th ...

located at

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. It is a brick,

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, temple-fronted structure featuring four fluted Corinthian columns and built 1857–1858. The rear addition is a two-story

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style wing dating from about 1900. Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church was listed on the

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in 1992. Pastors at Douglas Memorial Community Church include

Marion C. Bascom Marion Curtis Bascom (March 14, 1925 – May 17, 2012) was an American civil rights leader and Reverend at Douglas Memorial Community Church in Baltimore, Maryland, for 45 years. Bascom oversaw numerous civic initiatives in the Baltimore comm ...

and

Raphael Warnock Raphael Gamaliel Warnock ( ; born July 23, 1969) is an American politician and Baptists, Baptist pastor serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, ...

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External links

*, including photo from 1991, at Maryland Historical Trust
Douglas Memorial Community Church website
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