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Our tour guide Sylvie with visitors in Harlem
Our tour guide Sylvie with visitors in Harlem
Our tour guide Sylvie with a visitor at church in Harlem
Harlem & The Rise Of Gospel Music Walking Tour
The Black Church Experience & The Rise Of Gospel Music Walking Tour (Harlem)

Harlem & The Rise Of Gospel Music Walking Tour

By Kaissa Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is S$73 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

The tour is conducted by a New York City licensed tour guide. We offer this tour in French or English. Our tour guides are native speakers if each languages. In this tour we will visit 9 landmark sites which include the first Black Episcopal, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Baptist churches. We will examine their history, their leaders, and their role in the anti-slavery movement as well as the civil rights movement. This tour also looks at the role of Gospel music in the history of the Black church. We will study its growth from the ring shout (the foundation of all African American music), to the Spirituals, the role of the Protestant hymnals, ending with what became known as Gospel Blues, today simply called Gospel music. The tour ends with a visit to a church service where we will listen to a live Gospel choir, it is not a concert but a real church service.

Activity location

  • Abyssinian Baptist Church
    • 132 Odell Clark Pl,
    • 10030-2303, New York City, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 525 Malcolm X Blvd
    • 525 Malcolm X Boulevard
    • 10030, New York, New York, United States

Check availability

English Tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 7:30
Price details
S$72.97 x 1 AdultS$72.97
Total
Price is S$72.97
Until Sat, 28 Jun
French Tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • French
Language options: French
Starting time: 7:30
Price details
S$87.05 x 1 AdultS$87.05
Total
Price is S$87.05
Until Sat, 28 Jun

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedA Licensed New York city born Tour Guide with a portable video and audio system.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel Pick Up

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Travellers should have a moderate physical fitness level

Activity itinerary

Abyssinian Baptist Church
  • 20m
Our licence tour guide will share with you the history of this church. Founded in 1808, Abyssinian Baptist Church is one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Housed in a landmark Gothic- and Tudor-style building in Harlem, Abyssinian embraces a rich history of worship, spiritual leadership, social activism and community service.
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
  • 20m
Our licensed tour guide will share with you the history of this church. "The Freedom Church" was formed in 1796 by African-American members of the predominantly white John Street Methodist Church. Although that church was abolitionist in its orientation, racial segregation was still enforced in other ways. As one A.M.E. Zion historian described it: The coloured members were not permitted to come to the sacrament (Holy Communion) until all the white members, even children, had communedhe first church foundation stone was laid in 1819, and the first rector, serving from 1826 to 1840, was the Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., a leading abolitionist and the first African-American Episcopal priest in New York. He was one of three blacks who served on the first executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society
St Philip's Church
  • 20m
Our licensed tour guide will share with you the rich history of this landmark. This was W.E.B. Dubois and Thurgood Marshall's church. Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., a leading abolitionist and the first African-American Episcopal priest in New York. He was one of three blacks who served on the first executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Bethel Gospel Assembly
  • 1h 30m
Our licensed tour guide makes reservations to secure our visitors seats. We will end the tour here. Experience an authentic Sunday morning worship service. This congregation and its members are warm and well coming. The choir gospel and the band are excellent. Very often they are special musical services with gospel music celebrities such as Israel Houghton, Tasha Cobbs, Hezekiah Walker, Johnathan Nelson among others... We do recommend that you stay throughout the whole service, however we do understand if you have to leave.
Apollo Theater
  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
The iconic, world famous theatre where countless musicians, comedians have performed.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESAbyssinian Baptist Church
    • 132 Odell Clark Pl,
    • 10030-2303, New York City, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE525 Malcolm X Blvd
    • 525 Malcolm X Boulevard
    • 10030, New York, New York, United States

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