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  1. First African Baptist Church, now named First Baptist Church City of St. Louis. John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to ...

  2. Sep 4, 2007 · Constituted in 1806, Old Bethel was the first permanent non-Catholic house of worship west of the Mississippi. Because of those pioneers’ commitment to missions and the grace of God, the church grew and prospered.

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  4. Mar 13, 2020 · The church, which replaced an old log church that was constructed in the 1780s, is the oldest remaining church built between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and was the home of the region's only canonized Catholic saint, Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne.

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  5. In its early years, the Old Cathedral was the only church of any denomination for local settlers until about 1816. It is truly the “Mother Church” of St. Louis, the first permanent church in St. Louis, and the 1834 church was the first Cathedral west of the Mississippi River.

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  6. In 1793, the old Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church was disassembled from the first townsite and moved to present-day Ste. Genevieve. In 1831, a stone church on the same site replaced the vertical log church. In 1876, construction of the present church began around the stone church, and the stones from the former church were removed.

  7. It might have been 201 years ago in 1806, when the first permanent Baptist house of worship west of the Mississippi was established at this site — and the first non-Catholic congregation.

  8. In 1856, the First Reformed Church of Pella, Iowa was officially organized. It was the first Reformed Church west of the Mississippi River and the mother church of the Particular Synod of Iowa. It was organized by early settlers, who came from the Netherlands to escape severe persecutions experienced in their homeland.

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