The Preserve Black Churches Project was officially announced on Monday to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
A new fund to preserve and restore Black churches across the United States has been introduced by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Preserving Black Churches Project was officially unveiled on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with $20 million already set aside for churches throughout the country. As part of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the money from this fund was primarily donated by the philanthropy organization Lilly Endowment.
Historically Black churches could receive money from the $20 million Preserve Black Churches fund. Above, parishioners sit during Sunday Mass at St. Augustine Catholic Church on August 15, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana.One of the first churches to receive money from the fund is St. James AME Church in Mayfield, Kentucky. The church was one of the many structures heavily damaged during tornadoes that ravaged the state in December.
"Once the slaves were freed one of the things they wanted to start was a church home," Johnson told the Associated Press."They wanted to work out their spiritual salvation and have a place to congregate, and they also were used as schools and other things."
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