About Our Church
In 1864, during the Civil War, a group of African Americans in central Bergen County established the first African American church in Hackensack. They first met in private homes and then at the Hackensack Meeting House at the corner of Main and Mercer Streets. At first the church became an outgrowth of the New York Mission Society, an agency of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church which was founded in 1796 by James Varick.
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