Brooklyn Church of God (1965-present) 3800 Ninth Street

Beginning in the 1940s, a small contingent of American Indian people who moved from North Carolina to Baltimore settled in Brooklyn and made Brooklyn Church of God their church home. As Baltimore’s greater American Indian community formed, other church-going members of the community would travel to Brooklyn to support and participate in events. There was a regular American Indian presence in the congregation for many years.[1] The church’s original location was 901 Pontiac Avenue. In 1965, the church purchased a parsonage and built this current church building nearby at 3800 Ninth Street.[2]

1. Personal communication with James Bowen, November 22, 2019, and Personal communication with Roy Maynor, January 8, 2021.

2. See Philip and Mary Morris, eds. “Brooklyn Church of God” in Our Living Legacy: Delmarva-DC Churches of God CELEBRATING the JOURNEY, 90th Anniversary, 1919-2009, (Cleveland, TN: Derek Press, 2010), p. 299-300.